World’s first transformable historic organ can span centuries
Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 13:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Cornell University’s new baroque organ has become the world’s first organ with multiple historic wind systems. The $2 million organ is the culmination of more than seven years of research, and more than two years of work by 21st-century craftsmen, who used authentic 17th- and early 18th-century methods to build the instrument.