David, I’m afraid I wouldn’t have made much of this without Glenn’s and Simon’s research, but I’m grateful to the three of you for another savory morsel of Manx history.
I still wasn’t sure whether “an organ piece played on the trumpet stops” is played on an organ or a trumpet, and the recordings in Wikipedia are played on both together. I guess it’s essentially for organ, though. Beyond that, the plural would presumably be “trumpet voluntaries,” so I’m wondering if “trumpets voluntary” is a play on words—something about the voluntary nature of his burial and tying in with his jazzy stepping out (à la Irving Berlin) at the resurrection of the dead.
As you can tell, I had some fun with this.
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