Pearl remembered that to her it had seemed very grand and stately and majestic, with the dignity and thrill of a pipe-organ: "Give us to know, O God, that the blessings we are about to enjoy have come to us through the labors of others.

One religious denomination that now exists does not allow singing; instrumental music has been to some a rock of offense, exciting the spirit through the sense of hearing, to improper thoughts"through the lascivious pleasing of the lute"; others think dancing wicked, while a few allow pipe-organ music, but draw the line at the violin; while still others use a whole orchestra in their religious service.

She was amazed to find there, instead of the accustomed orchestra, a pipe-organ that panted and throbbed and rumbled over lugubrious classics.

From different parts of the plantation men came bearing huge platters of roasted pig, chicken, taro, breadfruit, and feis, with bamboo tubes of the taiaro sauce like the reeds of a great pipe-organ.

The surf beating on the reef, the wind in the cocoanut-trees, entered into the volume of sound, and were mingled in the emmeleia, a resulting magnificence of accord that reminded me curiously of a great pipe-organ.

Virgil Thomson (A); 1Apr68; R432880. Pipe-organ obsession.

Virgil Thomson (A); 1Apr68; R432880. Pipe-organ obsession.