This is the organ at Saratov conservatory. Of course I’ve seen this instrument before in churches and cathedrals and heared how it sounds but I’ve never seen how people play it. On the bottom picture Marianna Vysotskaya with here assistant are playing Antonio Vivaldi. I did’n know that musician plays with help of assistant but this device is so huge and has so much various buttons, keyboards, pedals and levers that it’s obvious it’s no way to play it alone. Assistant turned the pages, presses buttons, switched levers while Marianna was playing on keyboard and pressing pedals (her legs were so funny moving). By the way the sound is really great. I like it. After the concert we bought tickets to the next concert - Arjan Breukhoven from Holland and Trio-Sonata.
