Show OLD BEAMS FOR ORGAN PIPES Mellowed Into Condition Wood Is Then Perfect for Producing Tonal effect Organ pipes says n wellknown builder are made of the best white plno and the older and better seasoned sea-soned the wood the bettor tlio quality qual-ity of tone given out by the pipe In Germany und Knglnnd when an old public building such ns a church town hall or large structure of any kind Is to be taken down there Is always al-ways an organ builder haunting the place to find out of what wood limo roof and floor beams are made and If ho discovers that they are of while pine ho Is ready to pay almost any reasonable price for thorn provided of course they are In good condition without knots or nail holes He knows that many of these churches and other oth-er buildings were erected 100 or BOO years ago and that through 10 or 50 decades the wood had been slowly drying and hardening until It has reached a 1 condition which from the organ builders point of view Is perfection I per-fection Then he takes tho old beams homo to his factory covering them In transit with tarpaulins cuts them Into boards of tho desired slzo and makes his pipes with perfect confidence confi-dence that the organ he Is building will bo n musical success Most of the old organs of Europe that is organs built from 100 to 300 years ago have a mellowness of tone that distinguishes them from modern Instruments and although tho skill of time loner Is now lessening the difference I dif-ference between these new pipes and those that have been seasoned by long use there Is still a difference between tho old organs and the now just as there Is between violins made now and those Cremona Instruments that have mellowed with time American organ builders spend no tlmo looking for old beams but they do Keep their lumber seasoning and drying under shelter for several years before they use It and then depend on the toner to mako up the difference |