Recollections:

Jonathan Ambrosino Robert Anderson Richard Bamforth Steve Bartlett Greg Bover J. Melvin Butler Robert Cornell Steven Dieck William Dowd Miranda Fisk John Ferris Margaret "Meg" Flowers Tom & Carol Foster David Fuller Yuko Hayashi Peter Hewitt Walter Holtkamp, Jr. Owen Jander Brian Jones

George Kent David Klepper Roger Martin Tomoko Akatsu Miyamoto John S. Mueller Fritz Noack Charles Nazarian Barbara Owen Morgan Faulds Pike Daniel Pinkham Quentin Regestein, M.D. Stephen Roberts Margie Singer Josephine Singer William Smith Peter Sykes George Taylor David M. Waddell

Steven Dieck, President, C.B. Fisk, Inc. and employee from 1973

As part of my job as Project Manager for Charlie, it was my responsibility to schedule the work on the organ in the shop in order to get it out the door on time. One particular project fairly early in my career had me at wit's end. Charlie must have seen this in my eyes, or one of my colleagues might have tipped him off, but he pulled me aside one day saying, "Steve, I have the sense that no one in the workshop is living up to your expectations." I did allow that that was mostly true, and wouldn't it be nice if we could just get rid of all of the offenders? He gave me a fatherly smile and stated the obvious, "How ever would you then get the organ built?" He continued by pointing out that each person in the shop brought his or her own particular talents to the table and all were different. My challenge was to organize things so that each person was able to bring his best to the work that lay ahead. After all, the world would be a pretty dull place if everyone thought the way I did!

Steve Dieck and Charlie look at details for the continuo organs for NEC & Yale, Opus 66 & 66A

Photo: Robert Cornell