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Trivia about organ

  • Laurens Hammond invented an electric type of this musical instrument
  • In 950 this instrument in Winchester Cathedral needed 70 men to work the bellows
  • Gottfried Silbermann pulled out all the stops building this for Dresden's Katholische Hofkirche
  • Divisions of pipes on this instrument include great, swell, positive & pedal
  • In the '30s Laurens Hammond patented the 1st commercially practical electronic one of these
  • The barrel in this air-powered instrument is rotated & can have several tunes in its repertory
  • Lesser-known son J.G.B. followed Dad as a virtuoso on this instrument & played it at Muhlhausen's Marienkirche
  • People groan when Bob sits down to play this
  • In his day, it's the instrument Bach was best known for playing; he was an expert on its design & construction
  • The name of this instrument can also refer to a body part
  • The toccata is a form of solo composition written by Bach primarily for this instrument
  • Pipe up if you know Bach wrote a "Little Book" of 45 Chorales for this instrument
  • Joseph Rheinberger played this instrument for his parish church at age 7 & wrote 2 notable sonatas for it

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