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April 25, 2008

Did you guess correctly?

6828console_2You need a lot of air to work a church organ.

In the days before electric blower motors were installed, it was the lot of one of the hapless choristers to pump the heavy lever which operated the bellows. The organist at the console watched a rudimentary air pressure guage, the rate of descent of which was regularly the cue for some (mostly) non-verbal communication between the two individuals involved in that mechanical music making operation.


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Nah, not even close.

I didn't even come close Peter. I was thinking more of some kind of vessel that held oxygen or something along those lines. A church organ...who would have thought. Very clever. Thanks, I really like guessing games.

I didn't even come close Peter. I was thinking more of some kind of vessel that held oxygen or something along those lines. A church organ...who would have thought. Very clever. Thanks, I really like guessing games.

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