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Palliser is an abandoned townsite beside the Kicking Horse River between Field and Golden in British Columbia. There is nothing really there now (but it is still marked on some maps, and may be of some historic significance). The town was named after John Palliser, who led the 1863 Palliser Expedition. According to Paul Mariani, The Whole Harmonium, the Life of Wallace Stevens, the poet Stevens visited Palliser in 1903, at which time the population was eight. The 1911 Census of Canada lists 8 people living in Palliser. It was a sawmill town from 1886 to 1908.
- from 1908 "Lovell's Gazetteer of the Dominion of Canada" - PALLISER, a post settlement in Kootenay District, B.C., and a station on the main line of the C.P.R., 13 miles from Golden.
(from - Wrigley's 1918 British Columbia directory) - PALLISER - a flag station on the C. P. R., 12 miles east of Golden, 22 miles west of Field, in Columbia Provincial Electoral District. No agent or local residents. Golden is nearest post office.
The Palliser Post Office was established - 1 August 1894 and closed - 10 September 1914.
- sent from - / PALLISER / JU 28 / 08 / B.C. / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer (A-1) was proofed - 19 July 1894 - (RF E now is a RF D). A new split ring hammer was proofed - 9 July 1910.
Postcard was addressed to: Miss E. M. Walters / 1969 Estrella Ave., / Los Angeles, California
Eleanor Margaret Walters
(b. 6 November 1876 in Marsh Baldon, Oxfordshire, England – d. 29 September 1961 at age 84 in Los Angeles, California). The Walters family immigrated to the USA in 1893.
Eleanor Margaret Walters - Biography - "Daisy" was born at Marsh Baldon, England on November 6, 1876. She, with her sister May was educated at home by her governesses and later attended the Clergy Daughters' School at Clifton, Bristol. Here she had some violin lessons. She was generally known by her nickname Daisy and used it later professionally. After coming to America with her family she became a music teacher and taught at the U.S.C School of Music for 35 years. She played first and second violin and sometimes viola in the Los Angeles Women's Symphony Orchestra, the oldest orchestral organization in the west. LINK to a photo of Eleanor Margaret Walters - www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Walters-3739
Her father was - Rev. Edmond Walters (b. 2 Aug 1848 in Swanswick, Somerset, England - d. 14 Nov 1930 in Los Angeles, California) - He was educated at Repton School for Boys and at Oxford University (1867) with degrees of M.A. (Oxen) and S.C.L. (Student of Civil Law.) He won some cups at billiards and was coxswain of his house boat. He was ordained deacon in 1873 and priest in 1874. He was Rector of Marsh Baldon from 1876 to 1885, and Vicar of Langford, Berkshire from 1885 to 1892. Edmund immigrated to America in 1892 aboard the SS City of Berlin with his eldest son. The remainder of the family followed the next year on the S.S. Gallia. He was Vicar of various churches in California until 1907 when he retired and did tutoring and assisted in parish work.
Her mother was - Annie Elizabeth "Browne" Walters (b. 27 Feb 1850 in Island of Mauritius - d. 12 Dec 1921 in Los Angeles, California) - the daughter of an English Army Officer and a Holland-Dutch mother, Col. St. John Browne and Sara De Smidt, on the Island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, where her father was in command of a garrison. She had four sisters: Augusta (1845-1924), Dora (1846-1984), Georgina (1853-1940), Amelia (1860-1941), and one brother Arthur G.F. (1854-1933). Annie lost both parents when she was eleven years old and thereafter lived with her cousins Dora and Minnie and their parents Rev. and Mrs. Littlejohn. Annie married the Rev, Edmond Walters in 1873. Annie is a direct descendant of the Rev. Arthur Browne, who was mentioned in Longfellow's "Tales of the Wayside Inn."
Message on postcard reads: Just left the Selkirks (mountains) & entered the Rockies - many peaks where gold & silver are found. Wonderful country up here - Dorothy (this would have been her sister or her Aunt).
Karl Theodor man Borg (* 19 November 1861 in Karlstad , † 26 June 1930 in Leipzig ) was an organ builder of Swedish origin and as a producer founder of German Saugwindharmonium industry.Mannborg were a large firm in Leipzig. They were held in high regard for their suction instruments.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Mannborg
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Viens Danser ... Harmonium
Solitude is not too bad ...
If you like to dance !
:-))
Listen to the great honky tonk piano
Good Night
Guy
This is a photo of Ragani taken at the July 27, 2018 kirtan concert at the American Meditation Institute. Kirtan is call-and-response yoga chanting which is part of bhakti yoga.
Strobist info:
Two Canon 600EX-RT Speedlites positioned high camera right and left to illuminate the stage.
Trigger Canon Speedlite Transmitter ST-E3-RT
Light meter Sekonic LITEMASTER PRO L-478DR.
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Harmònium
[formació culta analògica sobre la base del ll. harmonia amb la terminació que es dóna en altres mots llatins, com testimonium, patrimonium]
m MÚS Instrument de teclat i de vent, de llengüetes lliures, que té un dipòsit d'aire i dues manxes accionades per pedals.
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Explored on July 12 2009 #471
Still entangled in thoughts of home.
The melody is based on a raga ,while the rhythm is called tala.
Still I think I can hear a Bhairavi been sung by my Grandma,Can you all hear?
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St Mary, Narford, Norfolk
The church of a village which has disappeared, begins Pevsner, but of course there are dozens of churches in a similar situation, many of them in Norfolk. There seems to have been no great disaster, no mass clearance by a landowner. Narford was big enough in the 14th Century to be granted the status of a market. But then the village quietly and simply got smaller, a process accelerated after the start of the 18th Century when the entire estate was purchased by the Fountaine family, for whom agriculture does not seem to have been a priority. By 1851, when the population of rural East Anglia was reaching a peak, there were barely a hundred inhabitants, and there are probably no more than twenty today.
When Munro Cautley visited in the 1930s, he found this little church in the park in a very neglected state. The church has had its ups and downs since, falling into disuse after a post-war restoration, but it is now in the care of the Norfolk Churches Trust, and as part of the combined parish of Narborough and Narford still holds regular services. However, anyone visiting today will, I'm afraid, still feel it is a woefully neglected place. The floors are green, the walls are black and running with water. But in fact this is the result of a series of lead thefts over the last couple of years. Anyone coming here can see very clearly the enormous damage that the current wave of lead thefts is doing to the heritage of England. Quite simply, one of the most significant manifestations of our way of life as a nation over the last thousand years is being very quickly destroyed, often by gangs from Eastern Europe. It is a disaster.
To get to the church you have to use a dedicated church way across private land. By law, there has to be reasonable access to a parish church even if it is not directly accessible by normal means. However, this is slightly complicated at Narford because the church was declared redundant. As recently as the first years of the 21st Century, a friend of mine had to be escorted to the church by the Rector of Narborough, because of the hostility of the landowners to visitors. When Pevsner's revising editor Bill Wilson came this way in the late 1980s, he was forbidden access to the church. But now some agreement has been reached, and you can walk, though not drive, to the church. It is not far, about a quarter of a mile. The church sits in an idyllic setting between the great ornamental lake and the even greater and more impressive pile of Narford Hall.
Narford Hall is famous for all sorts of reasons. When the Fountaine family bought the estate in the early 18th Century, they built one of the great houses of the age, furnished and decorated inside by the likes of Giovanni Pelligrini. Successive Fountaines were antiquarians and collectors, devoting their time and money to bringing together great art treasures from around the world and furnishing the house in an outstanding fashion.
What makes it all the more fascinating is that, since the mid-20th Century, very few people have been allowed in to see it. Pevsner's revising editor certainly wasn't. However, Pevsner was, albeit briefly, and we know this because of John Harris's wonderful and funny book No Voice From The Hall: Early Memories of a Country House Snooper. After years of trying to see inside, Harris was finally granted permission in 1960 on the condition to which all visitors had to agree, no photography. He describes the eccentric Louisa Constance Catherine Fountaine, in an ostrich-feather dress and an ostrich-feather hat which covered her face, and the great Pelligrini painted hall, piled high to the ceiling with what appeared to be mostly unopened copies of the Times, the later ones just thrown to the top of the heap. In fact, Harris and Mrs Fountaine got on very well, and she proved very knowledgeable, but during their tour there was another knock at the door.
"I am not expecting anyone," said Mrs Fountaine. The maid returned to report. "A man and a woman with a clipboard, Mum. Maybe from the Council, perhaps to read the meter." "I'd better see them," said Mrs Fountaine. "I didn't think they worked on Saturdays.' There is a ripple of amusement on our part when the maid announces "it's a Dr and Mrs Pevsner asking to see the house. From the Buildings Council.' In come Nikolaus and Lola, she indeed with a clipboard in hand. I wondered if there could be anything more off-putting to the landed classes than to arrive at the front door looking as though you'd come to read the meter.
Mrs Fountaine's husband Vice-Admiral Charles Fountaine had been a Naval ADC to King George V, and their son Andrew was probably the most infamous of the 20th Century Fountaine eccentrics. Born in 1918, he had fought as a teenager on the side of Franco in the Spanish Civil War, before signing up as an ordinary seaman in the Second World War. Before the end of the War he had been appointed a lieutenant-commander. After achieving a First in Chemistry at Cambridge, he became an active member of the Conservative Party, the ordinary route into politics for a member of the East Anglian landowning class, and even stood for parliament, but was eventually disowned by the party for his increasingly bizarre and anti-Semitic speeches. In 1960 he became a founder member of the British National Party, a far more radical party than the one with the same name today. Its paramilitary wing, Spearhead, used the Narford Hall estate for training with guns and for its annual British Aryan camp which attracted followers from all over western Europe.
The original British National Party was one of the groups which came together to form the National Front, of which Fountaine was a leading member. He stood as candidate for Norwich South in 1979, but increasingly became disillusioned by the bitter infighting between the old guard, of whom he was one, and the increasing number of younger populist neo-Nazis who would eventually split to form the British Movement. After getting just 0.7% of the vote in Norwich South, Fountaine retired from politics, to concentrate on growing trees, as his wikipedia entry quaintly puts it.
This, then, is the background against which you approach Narford church. The churchyard is bounded by new metal railings, but it is very easy to see into the park and ornamental gardens beyond. The church rides the churchyard like a ship in a storm, because the great mound that covers the Fountaine mausoleum swells against the north side of the chancel. The tower was rebuilt in 1857 in memory of Charlotte Fountaine, who had died young. The inscription around the top records her husband's fondness for her in a pleasing manner.
You step inside to a scene of near-dereliction. The walls are black with water, and the stone floor green. The large memorials in the north aisle are covered in plastic sheeting to protect them until such a time as the roofs can be replaced. There are just four benches in the short nave, facing each other in college chapel fashion. The chancel beyond is raised.
It is a haunting place. It would be hard to stand in here and not be affected by it. The two grand memorials at either end of the south aisle recall the wealth and influence of the 18th Century Fountaines. Sandwiched between the traumas of the 17th Century and the energy of the 19th Century, it was the landowners of the 18th Century who had every reason to think that their world was permanent and unchanging, that the world would always be as they knew it. Collecting art, tinkering with primitive science and technology, dispensing benevolent largesse to the poor on their estate - it is a world that is at once attractive and appalling.
At the east end of the north aisle, something has happened. The bricks that filled the entrance to the Fountaine crypt have come loose and fallen away, possibly because of the water ingress. You can see down the stairway into the vault, the wooden Fountaine coffins set in the alcoves. One facing the stairway has a coffin plate which reads CF died Aug 9th 1857. This, then, is the Charlotte Fountaine who died young, and for whom the tower was rebuilt.
Outside to the north of the church overlooking the ornamental lake and the gardens are the memorials to the 20th Century Fountaines, among them Andrew Fountaine, who died in 1997. And beyond the lake, the wind ripples thousands of young birch trees in the new plantation.
This is a postcard printed and published by H.G. Pearce & Company in the City of London. The view is of Piccadilly Circus looking east down Coventry Street. This is a very animated scene, it is July 1910 and playing at the London Pavilion in a Music Hall bill is Elsie Southgate also known as the Royal Violinist. Elsie was born in 1880 and appeared at the Queen’s Hall with Sir Henry Wood in the 1905 promenade concert. She appeared at the London Pavilion with James Coward on the Mustel organ which was a type of Harmonium, Coward was Noel Coward’s uncle. There are three buses in the photograph from different companies although by 1910 they were all amalgamated into a loose confederation. The fleet name “Union Jack” was employed by the London Road Car Company, the fleet name “Vanguard” was used by the London Motor Omnibus Co. Ltd and the fleet name “General” was used by the London General Omnibus Company. The Road Car Company had originally used “Union Jack” as a dig at the LGOC who had their origins as a French company in the 1850s. I am not sure of the make and model of the buses, but I think one at least is a Milnes-Daimler, perhaps a bus expert could help. The advertisements on the two buses on the left refer to the Hamptons furniture store in Pall Mall East which was destroyed in the blitz during the second world war, the site of which was used to extend the National Gallery during the early 1990s.
Mick Ronson was born in Hull 1946 on Beverley Road before moving to East Hull. As a child he trained classically on multiple instruments including piano, violin, harmonium and cello. He moved to guitar after listening to rock and roll music. In 1963 he joined his first band, the Mariners and played the local pubs. He was soon recruited to other bands playing in and around Hull. In 1965 Ronson decided to try his luck in London. He joined an established band, The Voice playing regularly with them over the next year. Having spent time visiting his home town he returned to London to find the band had decided to travel abroad and had left without him. It didn’t take long for him to be recruited by London soul band The Wanted. In 1966 he returned to Hull and joined Hull band The Rats. The Rats had gone through numerous line ups over the years. With Ronson onboard they released a single The Rise and Fall of Bernie Gripplstone. After more line up changes the Rats released further singles in 1969. Ronson had also played as a session musician for various bands but notably for Elton John in 1970. Ronson and the Rats were recommended to David Bowie as a backing band and eventually became the Spiders from Mars. Ronson was a key to the success of Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust era. He arranged much of Bowies music of that time. Without Ronson, Bowie’s music and career would have been very different. Bowie later explained that he approached the Rats as he felt they were exactly what he wanted. The bands main reservation was wearing make-up. Bowie persuaded them by telling him women loved it. After Bowie killed off Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Ronson went on to work with and produce some of the most high profile stars of the age including Queen, Bob Dylan, Mott the Hoople, forming a long term working relationship with Ian Hunter, Lulu, Lou Read Roger Daltrey and Morrissey. Ronson also released 6 solo albums and was often rated in the top 10 best guitarists. He was never given the credit he deserved or the financial rewards. It was not until he Morrissey asked him to produce his album, 'Your Arsenal' that he was paid enough to live comfortably. By this time he had been told he had only months to live.
Mick Ronson died of cancer in on 29 April 1993 age 46. A memorial stage was put up in Queens Gardens, Hull and more recently his friend Steve Harley (of Cockney Rebel fame) played a free gig in Hull to raise funds for a further memorial, which was unveiled in June 17 at East Park Hull.
J. & J. Goddard on Tottenham Court Road, London. The company sold pianos, harmoniums, organs and other musical instruments between 1842 and some time in the sixties.
I suppose that the harmonium bears a huge share of the responsibility for the decline in the quality of congregational singing in the US & the UK from 1850 to 1950. The lazy, wheezing sound is by nature unable to inspire enthusiastic - not to mention robust - singing. Maybe it had another purpose/function?
Immer gut umlagert und beste Stimmung am Rollenden Harmonium vom Netzwerk Apostolische Geschichte.
Internationaler Jugendtag der Neuapostolischen Kirche vom 30. Mai bis 02. Juni 2019 in Düsseldorf.
New Apostolic Church International Youth Convention on the weekend of Ascension Day 2019; from Thursday, 30th May until Sunday, 2nd June 2019 in Dusseldorf / Germany.
I suppose that the harmonium bears a huge share of the responsibility for the decline in the quality of congregational singing in the US & the UK from 1850 to 1950. The lazy, wheezing sound is by nature unable to inspire enthusiastic - not to mention robust - singing. Maybe it had another purpose/function?
Sound and Light Performance of John Adams's Choral Work "The Harmonium Project" with art projections onto the Usher Hall, Edinburgh - Edinburgh International Festival
Liesle, France
Zeiss Ikon Super-Ikonta 533/16
Zeiss Tessar 2.8/80 @ f/2.8
Agfa 1000 RS, expired 12/94
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a good friend gave me a Harmonium a while ago, it is great for long drones and is featured on my soon to be self-released album.