The pipe which brought in the water burst and the organ was mute.

I have always thought, perhaps wrongly, that malice had something to do with the accident.
This Liszt _Fantaisie_ is the most extraordinary piece for the organ there is.

It lasts forty minutes and the interest is sustained throughout.

Just as Mozart in his _Fantaisie et Sonate in C minor_ foresaw the modern piano, so Liszt, writing this _Fantaisie_ more than half a century ago, appears to have foreseen the instrument of a thousand resources which we have to-day.
Let us have the courage to admit, however, that these resources are only partly utilized as they can or should be.

To draw from a great instrument all its possibilities, to begin with, one must understand it thoroughly, and that understanding cannot be gained over night.