Yesterday we received the long-awaited book On Display from the British
Fair Organ Preservation Society, FOPS.  Those of you who are fair organ
fanatics will surely want a copy.  The promotional blurb says:

 "A celebration of 40 years of Fair Organ Preservation.  Published
  by the FOPS, this book is a compilation of magnificent images of
  fair and street organs through the years.  Each organ depicted is
  accompanied by a brief description and a number of respected authors
  have written histories of the manufacturers who produced them.

 "The book [contains] some 200 photographs, 40 of them in full color,
  celebrating the decorator's art.  Organs from before the turn of the
  century are featured alongside instruments from the wear years, and
  today's organ builders are not forgotten, either.  Restorers and
  music arrangers, past and present, are also well represented in
  story and picture."

Cost is about $32 including shipping.  VISA and MasterCard are the
best way to go.  Send your order, if this blurb is sufficiently
enticing, to Mr. A. G. Harrison, 61 South Parade, Ossett, West
Yorkshire, WTF OEF Great Britain.

On a personal note, I won't soon forget what a thrill it was to be
entertained some years ago by Mr. William Barlow, who had five of these
glorious machines at his home.  This was before the 'collecting craze'
really caught on.  I'm quite sure we ran a story of this in the Vestal
Press House Organ at the time.  We finally acquired one of our own some
years back, a 57-key Gavioli which we recorded just in time to sell our
recording business to Dave Miner in Iowa.  It's probably the best
recording we produced.

Harvey Roehl
Vestal, New York