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by itengelhardt 3320 days ago
great piece of music, beautiful website design, something completely different for a change.

Bach wasn't into computers much, but man did he hack those notes. Great pick!

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The web design used to be terribly unusable, with interface elements constantly feeling like they were trying to trick you. They managed to re-do it and improve it a lot.

It's a good sign. At one BWV per week, this project is going to take about 18 years in total. To succeed, they'll have to be prepared to go through many versions of the site.

Organs and watches were the "computers" of Bach's time.
No need for quotes. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_organ - the mechanics of a pipe organ are direct predecessors to phone switches and thence to transistors.