Cuban Organ

Studio 360 | Jan 11, 2011

Music journalist Gianluca Tramontana took a bumpy, 8-hour bus ride from Havana to the remote eastern province of Granma —- the heart of Cuba’s sugarcane country -- to find an extraordinary relic: a hand-cranked mechanical organ that is still the life of the party.

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