Widor’s Toccata is most often heard on large pipe organs — but this time it’s played on a reed organ. This is the same organ that I featured in a post earlier today. A reed organ doesn’t respond like pipes when music of this scale and intensity is attempted, yet within its limitations the piece still manages to work surprisingly well. For this recording, the organ is mounted on a temporary dolly for transport, which means the physical energy required to pump and play causes it to rock and sway n

Famed aviator Charles Lindbergh co-invented a glass pump that kept an organ alive outside the body. #history #discovery #medicalhistory | Historix