Appologies to Mrs. vG--and a bit of chastisement to Mr for misleading us on the nature of the problem--it is now clear that it falls not into the "there is one way to do it, my way" folder, but into the "enough already" folder.

The only credible defense for playing a protracted string of variations of a melody on the pipes is simply that, once you've got them cranked up, you might as well let them run for a while--