One of my guilty television pleasures here in the UK is the Canadian
detective series, 'The Murdoch Mysteries', set in Toronto from 1895
onwards. Last night I watched the final episode of series 3, 'The
Tesla Effect'.
There is a scene filmed on location in a large and magnificent house
which has been used as a location for several episodes of this season.
As the camera pans across the staircase hall it reveals, built into the
marbled wall, the unmistakable console of a 2-manual Aeolian player
pipe organ, with distinctive Aeolian toggle switches and the spoolbox
clearly open to view.
After a few minutes' research on the Internet (ain't the Net wonderful!)
I discovered that this house is the Parkwood estate in Oshawa, home to
Aeolian Pipe Organ Opus 1381, 19 ranks, harp and chimes, ordered in
1916. Ref. http://www.parkwoodestate.com/learn/
This particular organ is not listed as extant in Rollin Smith's
list, hence this posting. Of course, I don't know if it works...
Rowland Lee, UK
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