A lovely N.Y. Times obituary for John Peragallo Jr., president of the Peragallo Pipe Organ Company and keeper of the organs at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Building an organ “combines the skills of a musician (Mr. Peragallo was a good organist himself) with those of a woodworker (organs can have elaborate cabinetry), leatherworker (the valves that let air into the pipes are made of leather), electrical engineer (most organs’ inner workings are now controlled electronically) and game warden (Mr. Peragallo sometimes had to flush nesting birds from the forest of pipes before he could begin his work).”