Soul Music - Bellows shot

The wizards advanced in a body towards the organ. The air around it vibrated as if super- heated.

'What an unholy noise!' shouted the Lecturer in Recent Runes.

'Oh, I don't know!' screamed the Dean. 'It's rather catchy!'

Blue sparks crackled between the organ pipes. The Librarian could just be seen high in the trembling structure.

'Who's pumping it?' screamed the Senior Wrangler. Ridcully looked around at the side. The handle seemed to be going up and down by itself.

'I'm not having this,' he muttered, 'not in my damn university. It's worse than students.'

And he raised his crossbow and fired, right at the main bellows. There was a long-drawn-out wail in the key of A, and then the organ exploded. The history of the subsequent seconds was put together during a discussion in the Uncommon Room where the wizards went for a stiff drink or, in the Bursar's case, a warm milk shortly afterwards.

The Lecturer in Recent Runes swore that the 64-foot Gravissima organ pipe went skywards on a pillar of flame. The Chair of Indefinite Studies and the Senior Wrangler said that when they found the Librarian upside down in one of the fountains in Sator Square, outside the University, he was going 'ook ook' to himself and grinning. The Bursar said that he'd seen a dozen naked young women bouncing up and down on his bed, but the Bursar occasionally said things like this anyway, especially when he'd been indoors a lot.

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Soul Music - p81