Can you imagine a pipe organ that took up 900 square feet, was 70 feet high, 54 feet deep, weighed 87 tons and had 4,209 pipes, the largest of which was some 38 feet long. Large, but not unexceptional for a public concert hall. More surprising is that this behemoth of an organ was originally… Continue reading The case of the wandering organ
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If you build it, they won’t necessarily come
Almost everyone has heard of the Crystal Palace. The better informed would tell you that it was the inspiration of Victoria’s German husband, Prince Albert, as a place designed to hold the Great Exhibition of 1851. They would maybe add that it was later moved to Sydenham in south east London to a site on… Continue reading If you build it, they won’t necessarily come