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June 28th, 2006

Church organs avoid a serious set-Bach…

Posted by: Robert Basler
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If you love hearing organ music in church, close your eyes and imagine making your way to your pew while listening to hymns played by a polka band. A five-string banjo? A harmonica?

There is no substitute for an organ, but there had been fears that action by the European Commission could have threatened Britain’s organ industry.  Here is the story:organ300.jpg

 

Reverend Susan Brown vacuums infront of the organ in Dornoch Cathederal December 22, 2000. An intruder was discovered hiding in the organ after the Christening ceremony of Rocco, the son of U.S. popstar Madonna and British film director Guy Ritchie. 

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