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Rats in the organ at Canterbury Cathedral in 1674

ByDavid Shaw Home Page 13 December 20169 December 2024

In 1674, the Treasurer’s Book at Canterbury Cathedral records an ongoing problem in dealing with rats who were nesting in the organ bellows. In the days before electric motors, the wind for a church organ had to be produced by human muscle in the form of a mechanical bellows made of wood and leather, a…

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