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What lovelier impression could one have when
entering a house of God than to find it filled with sound of organ playing?
The mighty tone of the
pipe organ is the audible
embodiment of the soul of the sanctuary. Like every room, however, every
organ is unique.
The biggest challenge for the organ builder is to
bring church and organ into a sonorous symbiosis with one another. The
Second Vatican Council proclaimed that organs are capable of "wonderfully
heightening the splendor of ecclesiastical ceremonies and lifting up the
heart to God and heaven."
Even in our day and age, the sensual fullness of
organ tones never ceases to fascinate people. The organ not only reaches the
ear, but, by virtue of its resonance, encompasses the whole human being. It
is capable of producing a tremendous variety of tones and, at the same time,
can attain a room-filling power unrivaled by any other instrument. So it is
no wonder that the organ has also been called the "King of Instruments".
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