Unusual Music Week: The Pizza and Pipe Organ Connection

Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson

This week we're replaying some of our favorite episodes about music that sounds a little different. In this episode from April 2019, we visit Organ Piper Pizza in Greenfield, Wisconsin. As you eat, an organist plays an enormous Wurlitzer organ, which also controls stage lights, disco balls, a mechanical gymnast and a family of singing ducks. Plus - a story that's, amazingly, not an April Fool's Day prank, in which police in Madrid respond to a guy on a bus sharpening a big carving knife (!)

The Carlson Kids Visit Organ Piper Pizza (YouTube)

Remembering the Dining Fad of 'Pizza and Pipes' (CityLab)

False alarm: Knife-wielding man on Metro revealed to be expert ham cutter (El Pais)