A whisper from Waugh against "untuning that string"

In a postscript to his biography of Waugh, Christopher Sykes, endeavored to put his friend's obstinate opposition [to liturgical innovations] into context. "His dislike of the reform-movement", Sykes wrote,

was not merely an expression of his conservatism, nor of aesthetic preferences. It was based on deeper things. He believed that in its long history the Church had developed a liturgy which enabled an ordinary, sensual man (as opposed to a saint who is outside generalisation) to approach God and be aware of sanctity and the divine. To abolish all this for the sake of up-to-dateness seemed to him not only silly but dangerous ... He could not bear the thought of modernized liturgy. "Untune that string" he felt, and loss of faith would follow ... Whether his fears were justified or not only "the unerring sentence of time" can show.

Joseph Pearce, Literary Giants: Literary Catholics (Ignatius Press, 2005) -- and my wife guarantees this is a top-drawer read!