D. D. Home was a famous medium of the late 19th century. Sir William Crookes conducted experiments on Home to test whether his abilities were legitimate. In the accordion test, Home placed an accordion in an electrically charged copper wire cage, and it began to levitate and play beautiful music. When Home moved both hands to the top of the table, the accordion continued to float and play seemingly on its own, held by a detached hand. In addition to this test, Crookes observed other psychic phenomena with Home: “Under the strictest test conditions he saw ‘a solid luminous body, the size and nearly the shape of a turkey’s egg, float noiselessly about the room, at one time higher than anyone present could reach on tiptoe, and then gently descending to the floor.”
Caption: “The electrically charged copper wire cage which Sir William Crookes used in the accordion test with D. D. Home. The accordion floated in the cage and played by itself.”
“D. D. Home, the Most Mysterious of Them All” in Bristol Evening World, April 13, 1934, pg. 18, Nandor Fodor Scrapbook, Eileen J. Garrett Parapsychology Foundation Collection, Collection 331, Special Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD).