HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1975-04-17, Page 35PIPES LIKE TRUMPETS — Leonard Jeffs and helper
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for cleaning and replacing of felts. There are about
ranging in diameter from 12" to a quarter inch.
Greg Smith stand on each
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1,050 pipes in the organ,
(Staff Photo)
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20—THE HURON EXPOSITOR, APRIL 17, 1975.
For eighty-two years
we've been saying
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assures us. Then perhaps, the
leathers in the pipes will have to
be replaced. Some organ
companies now use a synthetic
material to replace the leather
across the pipe's mouth. But not
Cusavantes. . they have used
k very little synthetic material at all
in their organs in the more than
100 years that they've been
turning them out.
;
Work as an organ repairman is
not hard to find, Mr. Jeffs says.
He is the Cassavante
representative for south western
Ontario, and "the Casavante
name goes before you".
Organ repairing and tuning
would seem • to be a leisurely.
unpressured line of 'work, but
Leonard Jeffs 'says riot —alWays.
"It's high pressure sometimes "
when people are waiting for you
to finish up just before a recital."
He sometimes gets emergency
calls on weekends too. But its
satisfying work and it certainly
isn't run of the mill.
That's what attracted Mr.
Jeffs' daugher Christine, who left,
an office job just recently to work
with her father. Mr. Jeffs himself
served seven years
apprenticeship in England,
beginning when he was 14 years
old. He spent time learning each
job, including two years as a
tuner. He is sorry that there is no
apprentice system in Canada, not
even at the Casavante factory.
Greg Smith has been a sort of
apprentice to Mr. Jeffs for four
and a half years. H e now tunes
most of the organs and likes his
job'. "He's a good boss."
Although Mr. Jeffs is more
' than a middle aged man,
something about his skill and the
reliability of the Casavente
makes you think that he will Ile
around when the organ next gets
restored in twenty -five years or
so.lf it needs it.
Butcher
business.
different
years ago
Just to rub in the fact that
things, expecially prices, have
changed a great deal since
Seaforth became a town 100 years
ago, here arc some items from a
local butcher's account book from
the early 1900's.
In August, 1915, two pounds of
beef steak cost a total of 50c.The
day before Christmas. a Miss
Grainger bdught her Christmas
goose. It cost $2.85, size
unspecified.
the prices were probably up
from 1908 when 8 pounds of roast
pork cost a total of $1.00. In 1909
a 10 and a half pound roast cost
one man $1.05. The same year a
16 pound turkey cost $2.25 -- it
was certainly more of a luxury
item than beef.
The credit manager of this
butcher. shop was flexible.
'Accounts were paid "by work",
by cash or with a couple of lambs
-- worth perhaps $5. each or a
calf. A pig's head was worth $.50
in credit and a calf skin only $.35.
• Veal steak, almost out of sight
in price for any 1975 buyer sold
for $.25, amount 'not specified, in
1913. Beef tongue, which some
consider a delicacy was 5.70 for
3 1/2 lbs in 1917 . In' 1917. a
customer was charged $1.00 for
having his hog killed at the
butcher's.
A regular customer's
monthly meat bill might run to
$3.00 or $4,00 according to the old
leather-bound ledger.
One enterprising lady customer
sold the butcher two steers for
$95.00, three ducks for $2.25; one
hog for $16.50 and a bag' of barley
and -one of oats at $1.10 in 1915
and 16.
The butcher sold her
formaldehyde (what for??) at $.50
and 12-1/2 pounds of lard and a
crock for $2.50 making it more
expensive than beef.