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Excerpt from The Organ Fifty Years Hence: A Study of Its Development in the Light of Its Past History and Present Tendencies
The treble portion of the stop. Mr. Wedgwood, who has personally visited practically every Schulze Diapason in England, considers that there is a tendency towards coarseness in his work, a tendency which has been more than accentuated by some of those builders who have attempted to imitate him. At the same time the appear ance of Schulze midway through the nineteenth century had a most beneficial influence on organ tone, and Mr. T. C. Lewis, who has based 'his work on the Schulze model, may be said to have reached the zenith of achieve ment in this particular style of foundation tone.
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