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Join Simon and Leah as they bike across Europe, seeking out big, bizarre and beautiful pipe organs and their human handlers.

Episode 025 — Lucerne

Of all the big beasts on the Savannah, there is none larger than the Subcontra C of the principal 32’ of the Hofkirche St. Leodegar Organ in Lucerne. ...
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Episode 024 — The Cinema Organ

Perhaps we should have called the episode "The Theatre Organ", because the specimens we examine are all American. Pith helmets girded tight, safariers...
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Episode 022 — Sion

His stupefying single-mindedness yet again on display, Simon brings us another contender for the world's oldest organ—this time from the wilds of a Sw...
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Episode 021 — Fratelli Ruffatti

Simon rolls a natural twenty on his charisma check to explain to Leah his visit to the wondrous workshop of the Fratelli Ruffatti, prominent internati...
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Episode 018—Orgelbaumuseum

The Norrlanda organ, currently in a museum in Stockholm, is reckoned to be the oldest surviving organ fragments in the world. There is a working repli...
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Episode 017—Schmalkalden

We investigate the beautiful Renaissance Klangfarbe of a historic instrument in the Wilhelmsburg Castle at Schmaaaaalkalden.
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Episode 016 — The Europaorgel

Of all the weird species spotted on this safari, there is none stranger than the Europaorgel—a crazy chimera of sounds from all the countries of Europ...
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