1. I just fixed a few keys on this beauty and it sounds amazing. I’ve always wanted to play David Bowie’s Memory of a Free Festival on a harmonium and now I have. Apart from a few missing reeds at the top end it’s in remarkable shape. If the backplate isn’t fake, this instrument was made by Karl August Andersson in Stockholm some time between 1885 and 1922. I’m slightly dubious, partly because his other organs are ridiculously ornate and partly because I can’t imagine how it got from Stockholm to a bric-a-brac stall at the Binsey Village countryside fair.

    I just fixed a few keys on this beauty and it sounds amazing.

    I’ve always wanted to play David Bowie’s Memory of a Free Festival on a harmonium and now I have.

    Apart from a few missing reeds at the top end it’s in remarkable shape. If the backplate isn’t fake, this instrument was made by Karl August Andersson in Stockholm some time between 1885 and 1922. I’m slightly dubious, partly because his other organs are ridiculously ornate and partly because I can’t imagine how it got from Stockholm to a bric-a-brac stall at the Binsey Village countryside fair.