In 1929, Wood played a celebrated practical joke on musicologists and critics. "I got "very fed up with them", always finding fault with any arrangement or orchestrations that I made ... 'spoiling the original' etc. etc.", and so Wood passed off his own orchestration of Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D minor", as a transcription by a Russian composer called Paul Klenovsky. In Wood's later account, the press and the BBC "fell into the trap and said the scoring was wonderful, Klenovsky had the real flare for true colour etc. – and performance after performance was given and "asked for"." Wood kept the secret for five years before revealing the truth. The press treated the deception as a great joke; "The Times" entered into the spirit of it with a jocular tribute to the lamented Klenovsky.