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A World-famed Organ Builder (Mr. J. C. Casavant, of
Casavant Freres) :
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"The diapason is quite the best I have heard. . . . The pedal
reed (a 32 ft. tuba) is very wonderful."
"I have been greatly impressed by the fine organs I have
visited. . . . Your
beautiful instruments which contain such
great richness of tone with power. . . . They please me
exceedingly."
Another Representative Organ Builder, on hearing some of
•the tones produced by Mr. Compton in one of his
recent organs said :
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" It is the finest organ tone I ever heard," and requested that he
might be supplied with some details of voicing, so that he might
imitate the tone quality. Later he wrote :— " I am having a stop
made to your scale right away."
Mr. J. I. Wedgwood, F.S.A., Scot., after playing a typical
organ by Compton :
"This is undoubtedly the most effective organ of its size that I
know. . . . The
diapason is magnificent ; I can express myself
in no more eulogistic terms. ... It affords precisely that
quality characteristic of the old English builders, but vastly more
powerful, and possesses the rolling Cathedral quality without
suspicion of coarseness or insipid heaviness. . . . An unique
organ."
An Organist of Note, after playing some seven or eight
Compton organs :
"That which appeals to me most strongly as an organist is the
beautiful tone which Mr. Compton's organs possess, far superior
to the ordinary organ tone one is accustomed to. This I attribute
to his keen sense of tone colour, coupled with a wonderful skill
in producing from his pipes almost any shade of tone. Another
striking feature is the clever contrivances for the easier and more
effective control of the stops. Being a very capable organist
himself he knows just what is needed, and, further, finds out a
way of doing it."