# How do people learn to play unusual instruments (like a church organ or a carillon)?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [November 13, 2023, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-people-learn-to-play-unusual-instruments-like-a-church-organ-or-a-carillon/993055 "2023-11-13T05:50:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-people-learn-to-play-unusual-instruments-like-a-church-organ-or-a-carillon/993055/41 "2023-11-16T23:45:41Z")

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This was on Wikipedia’s front page today:

> **[London Bridge station organ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_station_organ)**
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> The London Bridge station pipe organ, popularly known as Henry, is a Victorian pipe organ located at London Bridge station in the United Kingdom. Built in 1880, it was moved to its current location for public use in 2022 by the "Pipe Up for Pipe Organs" charity project, which had recovered the organ from Christchurch in Whetstone, north London, after the church closed in 2020.
> The pipe organ was built by Henry Jones in 1880 and nicknamed "Henry". The console has one manual, a pedal keyboard and ...

> In July 2022 the organ was installed at [London Bridge station](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_station) − in the Stainer Street concourse, near Saint Thomas Street − by the “Pipe Up for Pipe Organs” charity project led by the organ restorer Martin Renshaw. Its relocation helped to save the organ and raise public awareness of the loss of pipe organs from closed churches.[[1]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_station_organ#cite_note-pipe-up-1)[[4]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_station_organ#cite_note-4)[[5]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_station_organ#cite_note-timeout-5) It is freely available for anyone to play,[[6]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_station_organ#cite_note-frh-6) and the [Future for Religious Heritage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_for_Religious_Heritage) organisation believes it to be the “world’s first open-access railway station pipe organ”.[[6]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_station_organ#cite_note-frh-6)

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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-people-learn-to-play-unusual-instruments-like-a-church-organ-or-a-carillon/993055/42 "2023-11-17T00:06:20Z")

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I’m just going to drop this here:

> **[Ace of Spades - Torenfestival Weert](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-JsEP9hDQk%2F)**
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> Guitarist Jitse Zonneveld and keys player Frank Steijns recorded in the centre of the city of Weert in the south of the Netherlands. July 17th 2021

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**Author:** ![Francis\_Vaughan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/francis_vaughan/32/3093_2.png) [@Francis\_Vaughan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francis_Vaughan)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-people-learn-to-play-unusual-instruments-like-a-church-organ-or-a-carillon/993055/43 "2023-11-17T00:53:21Z")

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Oh gosh that puts a smile on one’s face. Glorious.

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