I will join in the chorus of praises for Pasi's work. I have, since the early sixties, played organs all over the eastern half of the US and Canada, some of which were like soul mates that I could hardly bear to tear myself away from, but my favourite of all, without question, is the Pasi at Houston's Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart. We have another, much smaller Pasi at Houston's First Lutheran Church, which is about a mile from the co-cathedral.

Other fine instruments in Houston are by Fritts, Fisk, Aeloian-Skinner, Letourneau, Shantz, Rieger, Fisk-Rosales, von Beckerath, Casavant, Noack - and, we HAD a fine Holtkamp (1954 III-45) until reuter last year 'refurbished' it, gutting the original tonal design and, I suppose one might say 'fleshing it out', for $800,000.

My dream for Walsingham is that we will one day have a Pasi or a kindred instrument.

Francis, I read your feedback with a mixture of delight and disappointment: delight insofar as the instrument is lovely; disappointment as I consider this beauty to be 'the one that got away', as I was pushing very hard for a particular parish to purchase it a few years ago.

Have you played any of Ahrend the younger's work, out of curiosity?