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(AP) — Read the history of organ music at Trinity Episcopal Church and there's so much material there, you could write a sequel to "Under the Greenwood Tree," Thomas Hardy's novel set in mid-19th-century England. "By 1892, however, the parishioners had begun to complain that the organ was frequently out of tune," read the beginning of one entry, part of a litany of starts and stops for the downtown Fort Wayne church in search of musical satisfaction. There will be no more faltering motors or bellows pumping now that the refurbished Wicks Organ, installed in 1948, was inaugurated recently at a special concert played by the church organist, Wayne Peterson. On the rededication day, Peterson sat at the organ's console in the middle of the altar and played, receiving two standing ovations toward the end of the concert that ran six pieces. The "danse" begins with church bells and moves on to Gothic runs, rumblings, tiny music for naughty sprites and a couple of passages when an organist can "pull out all the stops," as the saying goes. Some of Peterson's colleagues attended, including Geoffrey North, organist for the German-made concert organ at First Wayne Street United Methodist Church who called Trinity's new organ "a lovely instrument."

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