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...some three weeks, a team of workmen from Zandamm, Holland, whom simply no one could understand, assembled the new modern classical organ over at Busch-Reisinger Museum. An auspicious event for music lovers and musical instrument lovers, its christening featured E. Power Biggs and free drinks for all. A late afternoon sun streamed through the windows and onto the stone floor of Romanesque Hall as groups of organists, German professors, and "friends of Busch-Reisinger Museum" clustered excitedly. Voices drifted between the hor d'oeurves...
...Europe," builder Dirk Flentrop explained to an admiring host, "we don't take customers to see our work. We take them to an organ built two hundred years ago. 'See, it still works!' we say. The old way is the best way .... Logic, not electricity...
...Biggs is ready to play," said an authoritative voice and everyone trooped to folding chairs facing the organ. The notes struck, proud and singing, from the compact, shiny instrument as Biggs played works by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (appropriately enough), Franck, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Bach...
...concert finished, the party moved upstairs to where Mr. Flentrop was dismantling a four-foot organ pipe...
...Smell," said Mr. Flentrop, pushing the pipe under a by-stander's nose. "Never again will you smell anything so sweet from an organ pipe...