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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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