one of the surviving records of the life of Andrea da Firenze, a 14th-century composer, is a receipt for wine he consumed in the three days it took to tune a newly-built organ?
after organistDudley Savage's radio request programme was cancelled in 1968, the BBC faced a protest described as "perhaps the biggest demonstration of its kind"?
Question 2: Tuning to an Unequal Temperament or "well temperament" contrasts with ________ gives a different character to each key and was used in the time of Bach and possibly throughout much of the 19th century
Question 4: the barrel organ, made famous by the ________ in its portable form, and relatively invisible in its larger form because it was then often fitted out with keyboards to give the option for an entirely human performance;
Question 6: From their creation on radio in the 1930s to the times of television in the early 1970s, ________ were perhaps the biggest users of organ music.
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