Development of the Resources of the Organ

Extract

With regard to this I premise that if you wish to boast of your organ that it weighs so many tons, has so many score of stops and so many thousand pipes, has so many miles of wire or tubing, requires so many score of horsepower to blow it, has so many billions of combinations—arithmetically, not artistically—possible, “Like the nails in the horse's shoes, Sammy,” I have nothing on which I can inform you.