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Your committee cannot too highly praise the double diapason in 

 the swell, which gives grandeur and force to the entire organ highly 

 effective, and at the same time recommending the adoption of this no- 

 ble stop in all organs of any considerable size. 



The pedal stops are most excellent, firm and sonorous in quality, 

 but your comraitee must decidedly object to the thin brass wire pe- 

 dals which are unpleasant to the foot, and umanageable in every re- 

 spect, having no quality to recommend them, but their novelty; be- 

 ing an innovation of no possible benefit but of great detriment to a 

 good pedal player. The fact of the notes extending to double C is 

 of inestimable benefit, and your committee hope that for the future 

 the abortive termination at G G pedals, w'ill be exploded. 



The coupler stops might with great benefit to the organ, be dimi- 

 nished at least one half, they being of no real value, beyond a certain 

 extent; the octave coupler being decidedly detrimental, the touch be- 

 ing thereby much deterioarated, and the increase of useless expense 

 being great. Though the mechanical execution of this most dif- 

 ficult portion of the organ, reflects unbounded credit both on the 

 skill and invention of the maker, yet we cannot consider any advan- 

 tage to be derived from such a forest of couples to compensate for 

 the increased expense and trouble; we also most decidedly disapprove 

 of the arrangement of the draw stops, as being calculated to con- 

 fuse the player by their complicated position, which is entirely at 

 variance with the approved practice of the best makers. 



The workmanship of the bellows is excellent; the adoption of 

 percussion valves being of great benefit to the steady pressure of 

 wind. 



In conclusion, your committee cannot help expressing their high 

 gratification at the general workmanship of the entire instrument; 

 nothing has been neglected that a liberal policy and exercise of 

 skill could produce. ' 



The organ may fairly be considered an ornament to the industrial 

 arts of America, and though many instruments may excel in the 

 mere number of stops (so called,) yet when the great cjbical extent 

 of pipe (the open diapasons on the manuals being throughout of me- 

 tal, and the pedals to 32 feet C,) is taken into consideration, the 

 organ may with truth deserve the appellation of grand, 



