Quote from: Ian van Deurne on September 20, 2013, 01:07:18 PM
There was a reaction of course by some, resulting in the famous court case to test whether Mr. Hammond should even be allowed to call his invention an organ at all, since there was nothing 'organic' in the method of sound generation. He successfully proved (or his team of lawyers did), that as the production of sound in a pipe organ came from the natural oscillation of air in a tube, then the oscillation of an electric current (which is also a natural phenomenon) within a coil is exactly the same thing.
Lawyers!
The sound of a violin is caused by oscillations of a string, and that also is a natural phenomenon.
So that makes a violin an organ?!