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New Movie Villain Plays the Organ at Blenheim
By Karl Petersen

> You heard it here first.  Yet another diabolical movie villain
> joins the ranks of organists.  In the new movie "The Avengers,"
> Sean Connery is playing the organ when he is introduced to us.

Blenheim Palace, ancestral seat of the Duke of Marlborough, is the
location.  In another scene a Yamaha piano completes a piece by itself,
being an electronic reproducing piano.

I had the feeling that they wanted the organ to go on playing when
Connery was at the console, since it is a player also, but had to
settle for piano so as not to lose a good idea (and a cheap one,
considering the cost of the sets and effects).  Some other scenes
were at Blenheim.

I did miss seeing if the organ console shown was the one at Blenheim or
a stand-in.

Karl Petersen
Meridian, Idaho



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