You are absolutely correct; you should never go into a take at the beginning of that take, except at the beginning of the selection. Editing organ music with a razor blade was far more difficult than editing other kinds of music, but with proper care it could still be done seamlessly. When editing digitally in a computer, the process is far more accommodating and there should never be any audible artifacts caused by the edits. As is implied in your e-mail below, for successful editing, (digital or analog), the take you're coming out of and the take you're going into should ideally both be musically correct on both sides of the point of the edit. According to SPARS code designation the second "D" should indicate that the recording was mixed down and edited in the digital domain and I believe all of the Mercury Living Presence recordings are designated "ADD"
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>Because of long reverb periods, organ records are notoriously difficult to edit perfectly; in fact, it's sometimes not best to try.
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>Best practice for retakes or inserts is to start several bars earlier than the bars intended for remaking, so that the reverb trail will be included after at the edit point.
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