A failure of mechanisation: a modern handle-operated church organ cannot be turned off, so is removed from the church in the course of the service. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1843.

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A failure of mechanisation: a modern handle-operated church organ cannot be turned off, so is removed from the church in the course of the service. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1843.