Sixtyforgan: The unlikely sound of magnets, springs, and a C64.

Introducing the sixtyforgan, another unexpected confluence of music and retro-computing. Referenced and cited material: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (BWV 565), The Art of Fugue (BWV 1080), and Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (from BWV 147) by Johann Sebastian Bach. All organ sound clips were recorded on the sixtyforgan. Public domain images of organs from Saint-Étienne-du-Mont (Paris) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City), and of a Bayan Accordion from the USSR, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Handwritten sheet music from Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin via IMSLP: ,_BWV_1080_(Bach,_Johann_Sebastian) Screenshot from Paratrooper, a 1982 MS-DOS game by Greg Kuperberg: (video_game) Line-drawing effect from a 1985 Microsoft AmigaBASIC music demo, featuring BWV 147, distributed by Commodore: Super Mario Bros 1up sou