Organ

Cuban Organ

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Music journalist Gianluca Tramontana took a bumpy, 8-hour bus ride from Havana to the remote eastern province of Granma —- the heart of Cuba’s sugarcane country — to find an extraordinary relic: a hand-cranked mechanical organ that is still the life of the party.

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Space probes have shown us what other planets look like, but what do they sound like?

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