L'Art du facteur d'orgues - Dom Bédos de Celles 1709-1779 (Paris Bédos de Celles, 1766)
Dom Bédos de Celles (1709-1779) was a Benedictine monk who built organs in Montpellier and Bordeaux, and who worked as gnomonist, i.e. calculator
Cited in Koopman 1985, p. 17; Koopman 2008, p. 6; Koopman 2016, 672 ("I remember two books in particular that I have been wanting to buy but could not afford for a long time ... It is only recently that I have been able to buy Dom Bedos's L'art du facteur d'orgues. I have been a client at the Voerster bookshop in Stuttgart for many years, and have found a great number of books there with which I just immediately fell in love. When visiting I would often make a pile of books that I would like to buy, and then see what I could afford later. After such a visit Mr. Voerster and I would sometimes have dinner together. The last time I visited him, about three months before he died, he had asked me during dinner if there was a book that I never bought because it was too expensive. I told him that for me that was Dom Bedos. After dinner he showed me a beautiful copy for an appropriate price and it is now in my collection.")
Superlibris of Marchese G. d'Adda ("Con limpidezza")
Par D. Bedos de Celles, Bénédictin
Keywords: 18th Century (1701-1800); Organ; Applied arts; France