An Improvised Trumpet Stop
My husband-to-be, our guest organist Tom (a work buddy of my husband's), and I all had choices for wedding music. Several of our favorites called for a trumpet stop. The modest pipe organ in our small, inner-city, brick Gothic church had none. However, it had a Vox Humana (Latin for "human voice), a nasal reed stop that sounded more like a sheep with a bellyache. Norm and Tom took the cover off the set of pipes, detached the tremolo, and opened up the reeds as far as they would go. It made a respectable trumpet stop. After the wedding, Norm put the pipes back to their old conformation, but the regular organist swore it never was the same. Helen Heitz |
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