PREFACE HIS book axes its origin to a request made a year or two ago by the editor of the Hull Church Porch that I would write a series of weekly articles dealing with old Hull organists and the instruments on which they played. A number of these had duly appeared, when I found myself obliged to discontinue them, not from lack of material, but from lack of time. I have been repeatedly requested to complete the work, and to issue it in a more permanent form and at odd moments of a busy life, I have now been enabled to do so. It has often been asserted, as a reproach against organists generally, that their artistic outlook is apt to be narrow, and that it is too often regarded from the particular aspect of their own instrument. The record of these pages, hovever, will shew that all the movements connected with music in Hull-the Musical Festivals, the formation of the various musical societies and other institutions for the advancement of the art- have been inaugurated or developed by...

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