>>Handel House
>
>Please, please tell me that all the door handles in the building have
>an inscribed portrait of Handel on them. Please.

Well, they do now, even though it's pronounced "hendel". :)

>In fact, I wouldn't put it entirely past Kate to try and
>build a pipe organ of her own.

Eh, too much work. However, she will happily grab some console time on any one that somebody else has gone to the trouble of building, so the fact that the big concert hall in Walker Auditorium has a Flentrop pleases her.

>Kate has been banned by local ordinance from pulling out
>several of the stops, especially the little one with the question mark
>on it that even she isn't totally sure what it does but doesn't half
>make the local pigeon populace feel ill.

"It's a 256-foot infrabass flue stop. Humans can't even hear it. There's some concern that if you had it and the 128-foot out at the same time, it would cause an earthquake."

--G.
for anybody's reference, the lowest-pitched bass stops in most organs are the so-called '64-foot' pitch, although the pipes may not literally be 64 feet long; even a 32-foot stop's output is more a sensation than a sound
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