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Organ loft   /ˈɔrgən lɔft/   Listen
Organ loft

noun
1.
A gallery occupied by a church organ.






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"Organ loft" Quotes from Famous Books



... tiny organist pushed aside the organ bench, stood upon the pedals and trod them, as though he had always known how. The monks in the monastery hastened to the chapel, holding their breath as one pointed to the figure of a tiny child in the organ loft. Was it possible, they asked themselves, that a child could produce such beautiful music? They remained rooted to the spot, till Wolfgang happened to see them and crept meekly down from ...
— The World's Great Men of Music - Story-Lives of Master Musicians • Harriette Brower

... day). Mr. Povy, according to promise, sent his coach betimes, and I carried my wife and her woman to White Hall Chappell and set them in the Organ Loft, and I having left to untruss went to the Harp and Ball and there drank also, and entertained myself in talke with the mayde of the house, a pretty mayde and very modest. Thence to the Chappell and heard the famous young Stillingfleete, whom ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys

... some gaudy colouring under the new cupola, and the effect of the west end is, as usual, ruined by the organ loft. There are very fine stained-glass windows, some quite modern, but so good both in colour and design, that we cannot look at them without rebelling in our minds, against the conventionality of much of the modern work in english ...
— Normandy Picturesque • Henry Blackburn



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