New Organ Makes Music With Leather, Oak, Lead And Tin

The Craighead-Saunders organ in Rochester, N.Y., “is a nearly exact copy of a late Baroque organ” in Vilnius, Lithuania. “Modern instruments take advantage of technologies that have given organ-makers generations of new tools and materials, like air compressors, composites and the electric circuit. But before all that, the builders did it another way.”