December 1998

A.E. Schlueter Pipe Organ Company
style='font-weight:normal'>, Lithonia, Georgia, has built a new organ of 12
ranks for Lowell Presbyterian Church, Lowell, North Carolina. The church's
previous instrument was a four-rank unit organ of stock design. The new organ
console is built of white oak. Console interior is mahogany with clear maple
dividers. Keyboards feature tracker touch, and the console is fitted with a
Peterson multi-level combination system. The layout of the chancel and the
architecture of the church called for installation in one chamber.

One of the most famous organbuilding "schools" in
Italy was founded in Venice during the first part of the eighteenth century by
Pietro Nacchini, a monk from Dalmatia.1 He established a factory and built over
300 organs mainly for the territories of the Republic of Venice,2 and for the
Vatican State, which at the time comprised the largest portion of central
Italy.  Although his designated successor was Francesco Dacci, with no doubt his most famous pupil was Gaetano Callido, born in Este, near Padova, who established hi