Post date: Aug 14, 2014 10:54:44 PM
25 July 1966
The Düsseldorf job only lasted a week, but since we had no pipes and could do no adjusting, that was pretty good. We worked 18 hours overtime and I collected $25 for mileage, ten of which I spent on a well-needed wax job. I had a chance today to work in Southern Germany on the Regensburg organ but turned it down because I have fixed plans for the holidays.
For the past two weeks and this week everyone has been following the soccer world championships. Germany just won in the semi-finals and plays either England or Portugal on the weekend.
I finally saw the movie Gone with the Wind here, in German—well done. They do a good job of putting on new sound-tracks here. My Fair Lady was excellent, using an awful Berlliner accent for Eliza.
We are now building an organ for the Lutheran church in Beaverton, Oregon, which has the same shape and about the same size as the new All Saints, Watsonville. The organ is behind a wood-lath screen behind the altar. If the parish moves before Thanksgiving, be sure to save the console (worth about $5,000) and the trumpet and vox human (about $1,000 each) stops. The rest is well-seasoned firewood and scrap metal. The pipe metal itself is worth $2-3 per kilogram.
My next letter (if I write) will come probably from England. I’m meeting my friends in Aachen and Tuesday noon (2 Aug) we are crossing the channel. They have a baby almost a year old, so I may have time to write letters or go for walks early n the morning while baby is being fed and washed.
On the 18th I have to be back to show a few organs and the shop to an “organ tour” of about 20 organists from the States, so tomorrow I must tune 3 or 4 organs and adjust anything that needs adjusting. I knew that if I were patient enough I’d get a chance to climb around in some Kleuker organs I hadn’t built.