“The instrument is a marvelously intricate device that Mr. Lamenzo, who studied mechanical engineering at Harvard, describes as a “pneumatic computer.” To watch his hands fly around its three manual keyboards while his feet dance across its pedals is to witness the operation of a retro-futuristic contraption that seems like something out of a Jules Verne novel.” Read more here
Erben Organ in The New York Times Word of the Day
Updated: August 16, 2021 by Lana Krakovskiy
The New York Times Word of the Day + Quiz on October 26, 2020 was “pneumatic”, featuring a passage about the historic 1868 Henry Erben Organ from John Freeman Gill’s recent Streetscapes column, “At Old St. Pat’s, a History of Defiance”
“The instrument is a marvelously intricate device that Mr. Lamenzo, who studied mechanical engineering at Harvard, describes as a “pneumatic computer.” To watch his hands fly around its three manual keyboards while his feet dance across its pedals is to witness the operation of a retro-futuristic contraption that seems like something out of a Jules Verne novel.” Read more here
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