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	Reference	S5580
	Publisher	Oxford, Positif Press
	Year	1983
	ISBN	0906894085
	Condition	VG+/VG (?)

The total with shipping for this book within the UK would be £22.92.

1st edition hardback, signed by author on title page IWarm Regards, Ralph Downes)

244 pages, with b&w photos and diagrams throughout text.  Internally crisp, bright and tight, no marks or damage - excellent condition.  Hard covers clean and unmarked, dj shows negligible shelf wear and very light sunning to extreme edge of upper border.  A very nice copy of a scarce item.

Written in his 77th year, this is an autobiographical book of the illustrious Ralph Downes (d. 1993)  detailing his outstanding association with the organ, both as performer and adviser in Britain and the USA.  It moves through many projects, including the London Oratory, The Royal Festival Hall  and the new organ in St David's Concert Hall, Cardiff, which he inaugurated in 1982.

During his long career as organist and choral conductor, his desire for, and sense of Authentic Sound was sharpened by contact with people such as William O. Minay, (London, Oxford, Gloucester,) Lynnwood Farnham (New York), Fernando Germani, (London,) Carl Dolmetsch and the clavichordist, Dorothy Swainson in Haslemere.  In the sphere of organ building and design, illumination came from Lady Susi jeans, C.H. Trevor, G. Donald Harrison, Robert Noehren, Louis Eugene-Rochesson and Dirk Flentrop.

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