Originally posted by whippen boy:
You make way too many assumptions.

It is actually rather easy to do, if you are playing an unfamiliar organ that has one of those wretched transposing devices, and if it is installed as a thumb piston rather than a harder-to-reach knob. I have a feeling I know the exact model - it is a pretty bad design flaw for unsuspecting organists (who often have to play unfamiliar instruments without much prior preparation).

My guess is that he went to change his registration with a thumb piston, and hit the transposer instead.


The only thing we can be relatively sure of, is that this person is not a "loser".