Monday, June 05, 2006

Bach First Ever to Pull Out All The Stops

Johann Sebastian Bach is the first person ever to pull out all the stops -- in fact, that was his job.

Bach was not only a renowned composer, but also worked as a traveling organ tester.
Apparently the first thing he would do to test an organ, which is actually a wind instrument, would be to open up all the pipes and test the instrument's range and sound -- "pulling out all the stops."

FYI. Put that in your organ pipe and smoke it.

2 comments:

s.k.namanny said...

Don't get me started about Classical Composers.

(I know, Bach is pre-classical, but rather than get bogged down in details, let us congratulate KirstIE on a fine blog.)

skn

dmo said...

You are one clever girl.