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by Doxin 1261 days ago
re point 3: It's really hard to overstate how impressive the sound an organ makes is. I've had the pleasure of being in a proper old-timey church with a proper old-timey organ when the organist decided to play a couple songs.

It felt like the whole building was shaking. Imagine that, meter thick walls being shook by sound. It was impossible to talk to anyone, even at centimeters away. It's not simply that organs are loud, which they are, They also simply fill the air with sound. To call the experience soul-shaking would be an understatement.

I can totally see why people would associate organs with god. When the organist stopped playing the silence was absolutely deafening.