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A FURTHER NOTE ABOUT THIS RECORDING As has been noted, this album was recorded on the famous pipe organ of the John Hays Hammond Jr. Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts. Much of the music made use of the Dynamic Accentor, a device which has been developed in recent years by the Hammond Re-search Laboratories of Gloucester. The Dynamic Ac-centor is an electronic device which, when added to a pipe organ, can more than double its volume, enrich its tone, and greatly enhance its powers of expression. The device maintains and at the same time enhancs the true pipe organ quality. It has been applied with equal success to instruments of threp stops on up to a four manual instrument of 144 stops. In the larger instru-ment, as in this recording, it has effected a far greater flexibility of control, allowing increased clarity in the use of various choirs. The Accentor comprises three electrical units, a volume control, an amplifier and speakers. With this aid, the organist can voice his instrument from the console to suit the acoustics of the auditorium. He is also capable of accenting any stop or ground of stops to obtain brilliant contrapuntal clarity.

WINTERTIME SUITE—Richard Ellsasser, organist

Feb 17 1919 Rock Island Argus