Professional Organist

Pat was a very accomplished organist. After we got married, our first major purchase was this Allen church model with a full pedal board and a nice selection of basic stops. It was a main feature in our home for almost 30 years.

We had gone window shopping for the fun of it, thinking that the instruments were way beyond our reach. We were amazed and thrilled to find out that they would finance it at a very low rate of interest and manageable payments. Credit was much harder to get in 1964 than it is now.



When I met her, she was one of the organists at the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Berkeley. The building is wonderful, designed by Bernard Maybeck in 1910, a historical monument and considered to be his best work.



We spent a lot of time in the loft while she practiced. The console is up in the loft with the pipes. There is a small sitting room and a bathroom for the organist. It is its own little world, connected to the rest of the church by a small mirror and a signal light.