Organs Pre-Electricity
Every once in a while someone asks how organs made their wind to sound the pipes before electric blowers were invented. This video shows how, on a very old pipe organ playing very old music in Spain. American organs had a similar system but with one double-acting lever feeding a weighted reservoir, instead of two weighted bellows that each act as reservoirs:
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3 Comments:
Amazing. Thanks for posting.
Thanks! I've always been one of those that were wondering about this.
Cool huh!
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