The Organ Seems to Express The Full Range of Human Sentiments.The pipe organ has been called the king of musical instruments because it takes up all the sounds of creation. The organ has a wide expressive range, from piano to a thundering fortissimo. The largest pipes (the lowest) can make the floors of a church or hall shake, while the smallest pipes (the highest) can sound like a delicate bird. It seems to echo and express the fullness of human sentiments, from joy to sadness, from praise to lamentation. Differences in the shape of pipes enable the organ to imitate many other instruments, which creates a wide variety of sounds (timbres).
The Almost Endless Possibilities of the Organ Remind Us of the Magnificence of God.
Beautiful organ music, like all music of quality, seems to transcend the human sphere, and evokes the divine. The endless range of timbre and variety of sounds of the organ seems to remind us of the immensity and the magnificence of God.
“The Lost Chord” by Organist, Adelaide Anne Proctor
The beginning of this poem by organist, Adelaide Anne Proctor, puts into words the magnificence of the organ.
Seated one day at the organ,
I was weary and ill at ease,
And my fingers wandered idly
Over the noisy keys;
I know not what I was playing,
Or what I was dreaming then,
But I struck one chord of music,
Like the sound of a great Amen,
Like the sound of a great Amen.
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