# What music does Cpt. Nemo play on his pipe organ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 29, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-does-cpt-nemo-play-on-his-pipe-organ/598025 "2011-09-29T16:12:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-does-cpt-nemo-play-on-his-pipe-organ/598025/21 "2011-09-29T22:24:28Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > No kidding? I didn’t look it up or anything - it’s what I imagined. > > I agree with you about the piece of music. In 1997, I was walking around inside [Bath Abbey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_Abbey), just after the [organ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Organ_of_Bath_Abbey.JPG) had been rebuilt. They were testing it and the organist played T&F in Dm, presumably to put the organ through its paces. Hearing that was an amazing musical experience for me! It was fairly awesome back in the 1970s. As I said to the guy in the piano shop last weekend, I was there once when the organist was playing Widor. The _Tuba Mirabilis_ on that instrument should just have been called “Wrath of God” and be done with it. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-does-cpt-nemo-play-on-his-pipe-organ/598025/22 "2011-09-29T22:32:05Z")
[Although](http://www.orgelbau-klais.com/m.php?tx=1): More likely what I was hearing was the Trombone 16’ and Contra Posaune 32’… same comment though. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-does-cpt-nemo-play-on-his-pipe-organ/598025/23 "2011-09-30T03:58:03Z")
Liszt, Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H [Liszt: Prelude and Fugue on BACH - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjdjbsWt24w) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-does-cpt-nemo-play-on-his-pipe-organ/598025/24 "2011-09-30T04:53:00Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue in D minor” I can’t imagine him playing anything else. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-does-cpt-nemo-play-on-his-pipe-organ/598025/25 "2011-09-30T05:14:44Z")
Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-does-cpt-nemo-play-on-his-pipe-organ/598025/26 "2011-09-30T05:17:08Z")
[QUOTE=Capitaine Zombie] I would buy a ticket to see a “20 000 fathoms under the sea” adaptation where the Captain greets his guests by playing “96 Tears” on his big organ. [/QUOTE] > [@Labdad](#): > > Either that or “Double Shot (of my Baby’s Love)”. I’d buy TWO tickets for either version! I’d be in if he’d close with [“Green Onions”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bpS-cOBK6Q&feature=related) and for an encore do ["Gimme Some Lovin’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MK8F5BHvgE)". ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-does-cpt-nemo-play-on-his-pipe-organ/598025/27 "2011-09-30T08:30:50Z")
Huh, I’d thought “baroque, if you have a proper organ that’s what you play on it”. I don’t imagine he’d stick to a single song, though: even if he stuck to the works of JSB, that alone is an enormous body of work. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-does-cpt-nemo-play-on-his-pipe-organ/598025/28 "2011-09-30T09:58:55Z")
I thought James Mason did a good job “pretending” to play the organ. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-does-cpt-nemo-play-on-his-pipe-organ/598025/29 "2011-09-30T16:14:26Z")
Yesterday I thought of 96 Tears, but saw that it had already been suggested. This morning it occurred to me that a good one would be: [Skater’s Waltz](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwNsykOjWxs) ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-does-cpt-nemo-play-on-his-pipe-organ/598025/30 "2011-09-30T16:24:53Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > Yakkity Sax. > > -Joe Yakkity Pipes? ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-does-cpt-nemo-play-on-his-pipe-organ/598025/31 "2011-09-30T16:51:40Z")
For some reason I’m picturing him playing _Stayin’ Alive_. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-does-cpt-nemo-play-on-his-pipe-organ/598025/32 "2011-09-30T17:18:07Z")
I think it would’ve been fun to hear him play [Hoedown](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFCniNYZoFg) (even though the song hadn’t been written yet) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-does-cpt-nemo-play-on-his-pipe-organ/598025/33 "2011-09-30T17:22:04Z")
Yellow Submarine. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-does-cpt-nemo-play-on-his-pipe-organ/598025/34 "2011-09-30T18:15:23Z")
What song was he playing in the silent version? ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-does-cpt-nemo-play-on-his-pipe-organ/598025/35 "2011-09-30T19:09:00Z")
“Victory at Sea”? ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-does-cpt-nemo-play-on-his-pipe-organ/598025/36 "2011-09-30T19:33:37Z")
In the book, FWIW, the narrator observes him playing “solely on the black keys, which gave the music a Scotch character” - as pentatonics would. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-does-cpt-nemo-play-on-his-pipe-organ/598025/37 "2011-09-30T21:06:33Z")
Also FWIW, in the 1961 Ray Harryhausen version of **Mysterious Island** (which dovetails nicely with the Disney 20,000 Leagues, and features a Nautilus that looks a lot like Goff’s version from Disney), Herberet Lom as Captain Nemo also plays _Toccata and Fugue in D Minor_. We really gotta teach theInteresting Insane Geniuses some alternative music. > **[Mysterious Island (1961) - Soundtracks - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055207/soundtrack/)** > > Mysterious Island (1961) - Movies, TV, Celebs, and more... ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-does-cpt-nemo-play-on-his-pipe-organ/598025/38 "2011-09-30T21:11:15Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > What song was he playing in the silent version? I doon’t know what people at the time played, but in 2010 a showing of the 1916 film featured an original score by Stephin Merritt. I’ve got a copy of the film on tape, but I don’t recall what was played on the (pre-2010) video recording. I’ll have to have a look. > **[20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20,000_Leagues_Under_the_Sea_(1916_film))** > > 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1916 American silent film directed by Stuart Paton. The film's storyline is based on the 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne. It also incorporates elements from Verne's 1875 novel The Mysterious Island. > On May 4, 2010, a new print of the film was shown accompanied by a live performance of an original score by Stephin Merritt at the Castro Theatre, as part of the San Francisco International Film Festival. > In 2016, the film was dee... [http://www.sffs.org/content.aspx?catid=9&pageid=1537&TitleId=](http://www.sffs.org/content.aspx?catid=9&pageid=1537&TitleId=) > **[Stephin Merritt 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea](https://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/stephin-merritt-20000-leagues-under-sea)** > > Known mostly for concise, brainy pop songs, Stephin Merritt might not be an obvious choice for soundtrack-composer extraordinaire, usually the territory of folks who have a 10-minutes-plus song on every album, use a bow on their guitars, are... ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-does-cpt-nemo-play-on-his-pipe-organ/598025/39 "2011-09-30T21:17:28Z")
The DVD release of the silent version has an orchestral score amnd piano score by Alexander Rannie and Brian Benison. It doesn’t mention any Bach in it: [http://www.silentera.com/video/twentyThousandLeaguesHV.html](http://www.silentera.com/video/twentyThousandLeaguesHV.html) > **[20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA](http://www.bigandloud.com/20k/)** > > 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-does-cpt-nemo-play-on-his-pipe-organ/598025/40 "2011-09-30T21:40:46Z")
Just for the record, Toccata and Fugue in D has been used in “horror” associations in: **The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao** (during the destruction of Woldercan) > **[Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toccata_and_Fugue_in_D_minor,_BWV_565)** > > The Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, is a piece of organ music written, according to its oldest extant sources, by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750). The piece opens with a toccata section, followed by a fugue that ends in a coda. Scholars differ as to when it was composed. It could have been as early as c. 1704. Alternatively, a date as late as the 1750s has been suggested. To a large extent, the piece conforms to the characteristics deemed typical of the north German organ school of the B... **The Black Cat** (1934) **The Phantom of the Opera** (1962) > **[Talk:Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toccata_and_Fugue_in_D_minor,_BWV_565)** > > Archives: 1, 2 > > The "In film" section has become unbalanced; it does no longer conform to the WP:BALASP policy while elaborating extensively on one film which is not particularly often mentioned in connection to this composition: other films of comparable bandwidth in reliable sources w.r.t. this composition currently have one or two sentences. --Francis Schonken (talk) 17:56, 4 November 2020 (UTC)Reply\[reply\] **La Dolce Vita** [http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/ladolcevita.php](http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/ladolcevita.php) An Episode of **Supernatural** has the Phantom of the Opera playing it > **[Adaptations of The Phantom of the Opera](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_the_Opera_(adaptations))** > > There have been many literary and dramatic works based on Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera, ranging from stage musicals to films to children's books. Some well known stage and screen adaptations of the novel are the 1925 film and the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical (see The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)); Susan Kay's 1990 Phantom is one of the best known novels and includes in-depth study of the title character's life and experiences. > Finnish Symphonic metal band Nightwish c... The **Night Gallery** episode _Phantom of What Opera?_ has The Phantom playing the Toccata and Fugue: [http://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play?p=phantom%20of%20what%20opera&tnr=21&vid=1253069882036&l=275&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts1.mm.bing.net%2Fvideos%2Fthumbnail.aspx%3Fq%3D1253069882036%26id%3D5e3fb3fbfb2332bf5843e1ed67e4c711%26bid%3DJtHWLs%252bamOW6Hg%26bn%3DThumb%26url%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.dailymotion.com%252fvideo%252fx7ivt6\_ng-phantom-of-what-opera-vo\_shortfilms&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymotion.com%2Fvideo%2Fx7ivt6\_ng-phantom-of-what-opera-vo\_shortfilms&sigr=12eo872gp&newfp=1&tit=ng+-+phantom+of+what+opera+(vo)](http://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play?p=phantom%20of%20what%20opera&tnr=21&vid=1253069882036&l=275&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts1.mm.bing.net%2Fvideos%2Fthumbnail.aspx%3Fq%3D1253069882036%26id%3D5e3fb3fbfb2332bf5843e1ed67e4c711%26bid%3DJtHWLs%252bamOW6Hg%26bn%3DThumb%26url%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.dailymotion.com%252fvideo%252fx7ivt6_ng-phantom-of-what-opera-vo_shortfilms&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymotion.com%2Fvideo%2Fx7ivt6_ng-phantom-of-what-opera-vo_shortfilms&sigr=12eo872gp&newfp=1&tit=ng+-+phantom+of+what+opera+%28vo%29) (I love, by the way, the fact that the actor playing the Phantom apparently can’t get his taper to extinguish. Lawrence of Arabia he ain’t) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-does-cpt-nemo-play-on-his-pipe-organ/598025.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-does-cpt-nemo-play-on-his-pipe-organ/598025.md?page=3)