. Edward Hodges, doctor in music of Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge; organist ... Bristol, England, 1819-1838; organist and director in Trinity Parish, New York, 1839-1859;. ded forty-three Inventions andProjects in the year 1821 alone. They go over agreat deal of ground : came into his head at allsorts of times and all sorts of places : in Church,in the Commercial Rooms, (one of his favourite re-sorts in Bristol,) in bed, in his walks and rambles,or in conversation with a friend. Some are quaintand curiously original, showing a wonderful fertilityand forecast of practical and mechanical know
. Edward Hodges, doctor in music of Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge; organist ... Bristol, England, 1819-1838; organist and director in Trinity Parish, New York, 1839-1859;. ded forty-three Inventions andProjects in the year 1821 alone. They go over agreat deal of ground : came into his head at allsorts of times and all sorts of places : in Church,in the Commercial Rooms, (one of his favourite re-sorts in Bristol,) in bed, in his walks and rambles,or in conversation with a friend. Some are quaintand curiously original, showing a wonderful fertilityand forecast of practical and mechanical knowledge ;while all indicate a degree of observation andthoughtful intelligence, remarkable in one who hadbarely reached a quarter of century in years; andwho, besides having his time and attention neces-sarily given to business, was pursuing with extremediligence his studies in the Science, Practice, Com-position and History of Music. Of the forty-three inventions, seven were for theOrgan {vide Improvement of Organs, 1826-182 7,London Musical Magazine a7td Review, by Dr. Ed- ■> -, ■>■>■>■> -,-,_ •>•>■>■> > •1 ^ ■> t. OO u o > Z < o 2 c« « , t f c t r ft cr .t r f €C t « cI-» < r ftr f rt r t t t € t t €r< c■ t re - ^ e r r r € My Fathers Inventions 199 ward Hodges); and the Organ of St. Jamess,Bristol, was the fore-runner of all the large Organserected in England, as Trinity Organ, New York,was of all afterwards built in the United was, as a Cathedral Organist told the writer,called an Innovator, in this instance a term ofhonour. He wrote of his old organ at St. Jamess, the Organ is vile ! He lived to see his innova-tion universally adopted. Whether he receivedthe credit of it is another matter. It did not troublehim much. He was, said a distinguished Doctorin Music, of Cambridge, fifty years before his closes his record with this bit of Philosophy: * As to my projects mechanica
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