- What's that?
- Sounds like the organ.
- But the motor isn't on. The console was locked when I left.

— Mr. Theodore Evans (Vincent Price), Miss Amanda (Ida Lupino)

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7 seconds sound clip from the Fugue in C Minor (Suspense) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:19:29 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- I'm going to tell you something. Something I've never told to a living soul. It may frighten you.

- Margaret was going mad when she died. No one knew it but me. It ran in her family.

- I discovered it long after we were married, after the children were born. Otherwise, I'd never have...

- And now you think the children...?

- I'm afraid so.

- It was 'peopling of sound' she had... just like them. A fear of the dead's returning. She used to play...

- Sounds like the organ.

- But the motor isn't on. The console was locked when I left.

- Someone's trying to play.

- No one but me can touch that instrument. It's forbidden in this house and the servants are out. Unless those children...

- Come upstairs, Amanda.

- Why, there's no one here. No one at the keyboard. The organ's playing itself.

- That's impossible. The motor's not going.

- Yes, it sets the bellows going. There's no air in the pipes unless it's on. No air to make the pipes speak. It's impossible, I tell you!

- Perhaps the children found the key and got in...

- Key? No, no, no, the key's here in my pocket.

[...]

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The idiotic tunes people play nowadays. Give me the old stern classics. They have strength and power! Give me something with life to it, something that will flood the whole house with sound!

A scream, for example. There's something so exciting about pulling out all the stops and drowning out all human sound!

And the delightful thing, of course, about having a pipe organ in the house is that it's everywhere. To sit at a keyboard and hear the walls, the ceilings, the floors vibrate.

Why, there's no one here. No one at the keyboard. The organ's playing itself. -That's impossible. The motor's not going.

And by some malicious stroke of fate, there was an epidemic of scarlet fever raging out there. The authorities wouldn't lift the quarantine and let them out for her funeral.

Fugue in C Minor (Suspense) Sound Clip

Quotes from Fugue in C Minor - Suspense Radio Show based on a horror story written by Lucille Fletcher, aired on June 1st, 1944.

Actors: Vincent Price (Mr. Theodore Evans), Ida Lupino (Miss Amanda)

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