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

Stephen Roberts, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT

Charles Fisk was installing the Swell (Echo) division of the organ in Center Church, New Haven. This was about 1975 or so. I was a student at Yale at the time, and went by the church to see Fisk work. He was very patient and kind as always. I noticed that the Dulciana 8' in the Positive division had Haskell basses. I was a very impertinent lad, and I said to Fisk, "Haskell basses in a mechanical action organ built along Classical lines? That's an Estey patent, as you know." Fisk was unfazed. He shrugged his shoulders and said, "A good idea is a good idea, no matter who had it!" I was very impressed by that very practical, sensible reaction, and I have never forgotten it nearly 30 years later. I've told that story on piporg - l before, but as you see, Charles' words made quite an impression on me. I'd like to think that I use the same kind of common sense in my own work.