tive set up new-type organs in Baltimore, Md., and
Taunton, Mass., joined the Austin Organ Co., Hartford, Conn. He
rapidly introduced modern string tone and other improvements there.

In 1903 Hope-Jones came to this country and also joined the Austin
Organ Co. as its Vice-President, whereupon that company adopted his
stop-keys, wind pressures, scales, leathered lip, smooth reeds,
orchestral stops, etc. (Albany Cathedral, Wanamaker's organ, New York,
the organs now standing in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and others.)

In 1907 the Hope-Jones Organ Co., Elmira, N. Y., commenced the
construction of organs containing all these and other English
improvements (Ocean Grove, N. J.; Buffalo Cathedral, N. Y.; New
Orleans, La., etc.).

The influence of the work already done by the aforenamed pioneers in
this country is being manifested in a general improvement in organ tone
and mechanism throughout the United States.

Musical men, hearing the new tones and musical effects now produced,
realize for the first time the grandeur and refinement and amazing
variety of musical effects that the organ is capable of yielding; on
returning to their own churches they are filled with "divine
discontent," and they do not rest until a movement for obtaining a new
organ, or at least modernizing the old one, is set on foot. The
abandonment of old ideas as to the limitations of the organ is begun,
new ideals are being set up, and a revolution which will sweep the
whole country has now obtained firm foothold.

Until recently England unquestionably led in the development of the
organ, and Hope-Jones led England. Now that his genius is at work in
this country, who shall set limit to our progress? Even when
expressing himself through other firms, his influence entirely altered
the standard practice of the leading builders, and now, since direct
expression has been obtained, improvements have appeared with even
greater rapidity.

It is the author's opinion (based on a wide knowledge of the
instruments in both countries) that in the course of the last ten years
this country has made such great strides in the art that it may now
claim ability to produce organs that are quite equal to the best of
these built in England. And he ventures to prophesy that in less than
another ten years, American-built organs will be accepted as the
world's highest standard.

At a banquet given in his honor in New York in 1906, the late Alexandre
Guilmant comp