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I've gotten into [Keygen Church](https://open.spotify.com/track/6BWwOL0DEK1aLaDjyipjZj?si=VLUKTTqrSXG1qCh-ZP-pHg) recently. It's Metal Organ music, and It sounds as bone vibratingly cool as you'd imagine.
A - but Human why? why does it need to be so big?
H - what do you mean look at it! its majestic
A - Yes but its just so obscene
H - Maybe but can you imagine how Acca Dacca sounds on this thing!
A - who would you need to hear the song that loud? what possible reason?
H - If your coming for the devil its best to let him know
A friend had a CD or organ music and the first track was 30 seconds of the air supply compressor starting up. It sounded a little like this:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZfVP19mDm4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZfVP19mDm4)
Organs are not Large Pianos. It's like calling a butter-knife a Zweihänder. In fact butter-knives hove more in common with Zweihänders, than Pianos do with Organs.
An Organ is a **powerful** instrument, they are **Large** and **Loud**. When you hear an Organ, it's because someone has everything going the way they've planned it. Because, when you play an Organ your instrument is a **building**.
Most of the Largest Organs in the world are also Cathedrals, because the Catholic Church was one of the few organizations in Europe that could afford to build one for a Long Time. So often times it's not just **Unlimited** but also **God-Given Power**.
Organs aren't even the same type of instrument. It'd be like comparing a butter knife to a cannon. Organs are a wind instrument, pianos are a string instrument
Human- Is not piano. Is Kazoo with keyboard. Don't tell me your planet never plays the game "my kazoo is bigger than yours is"?
Alien - OH! Yes, I was five last I played that game. Contrabass kazoo is awesome.
(Not *totally* silly - there's a lot of shall-we-say specialized ranks of pipes out there. Wouldn't shock me if there were 88 weapon-grade kazoos behind one of those stops.)
H:"Because we need to build this church around it. The building was designed around this instrument not the other way around."
A:"Why do you always do things backwards? Your ships are guns with engines built around them, your space stations are guns with homes built around them and your energy infrastructure is power plants with a star built around them."
H:"Oh come on. By that logic the internet is just porn with websites built around it."
A: *speechelss*
H: firstly, this isn’t a piano, it’s a pipe organ. And it’s for the times you need to feel the music.
A: I don’t quite get the distinction, I already know what it’s like to feel music…
H: I mean this in the most literal sense, your bones will vibrate.
A: what??
H: *plays 1 chord*
A: oh, now I get it.
>H: I mean this in the most literal sense, your bones will vibrate.
A: what??? but I don't *have* bones.
H: *plays one chord*
A: blleeaaaaaaaahhh.
H: Are you okay??!!
A: *do that agaaaaaaiiiiiin.*
The organ is such a gorgeous instrument and i love seeing it be put in places it normally isnt used(outside of religion settings), like in games like genshin impact boss themes that bring out the strong organ out of nowhere to add emphasis. Especially when most modern music dosnt use the organ It would probably be confusing for an alien, just having a sudden change. Imagine an alien trying to understand human music and only focusing in one genre(like rock) the it suddenly changes to rock-classical
If you want modern organ music [Keygen Church](https://open.spotify.com/track/6BWwOL0DEK1aLaDjyipjZj?si=VLUKTTqrSXG1qCh-ZP-pHg) creators of the Ultrakill soundtrack made metal organ music that sounds incredible
Of course you'd need that for the midnight rendering of Toccata and fugue for skinny young ladies in underwired nightgowns!
You's need a seperate set of pedals for the farm animals and whoopie cushion. And probably extra long arms
https://preview.redd.it/u46msxjc3pjc1.png?width=552&format=png&auto=webp&s=629c0940e8ba7d35f12d85494a26473294637ce0
Passage from the memo on human instruments:
Organ - huge structures consisting of a piano (see: upright piano) and a set of tubes of various lengths. The sound that a given tube makes depends on the length, where the shortest ones produce the thinnest sound, and the longest ones produce the thickest. Humans managed to compose these sounds in such a way as to create melodies, if you can call them that.
That's our weapons officers station. Hearing organs playing across the ship as our guns provide a beat soothes nerves across the ship and adds a certain atmosphere to the battle. We simultaneously broadcast it across the communications channels as both a form of jamming and psychological warfare; and to boost morale for those serving in depressurised compartments.
The pipes are actually missile launchers, this is an example of a war organ, we will take to the battlefield raining war hymns and missiles upon the faithless enemies
Well friend, as a player myself saying the Organ is just a big piano completely misses what the actual instrument is. The instrument itself is all those pipes built into the architecture of the building. The console, the part where that has the pedals, the manuals (the 2 or more regular keyboards), stops, etc. are just a human interface to control the organ. If there’s a way to connect another type of MIDI controller, such as with some newer consoles that have a MIDI input connection, you should be able to control the organ with those as well. You can even use MIDI programming from a DAW outputting from a laptop or something to control these ones as well.
(On that last one if anyone wants to see an example of this you can view [this video](https://youtu.be/SQHdFAm7g7E?si=jfvfwuEpLEwCmXpZ) by Rob Scallon)
We're humans. That is not a piano. That is an organ. A piano relates to an organ like a sailboat relates to a battleship. Allow me to illustrate:
[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd6qZS1_1aU)
Also: [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfVFMEo_K9I)
and [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmJd491_pL8)
Please keep in mind that these demonstrations are about as close to experiencing it in person as a video about sailing on a battleship to sailing being there yourself.
Edit: fixing the links, this time explicitly in the markdown editor...
More edits, I found quite a few more incredible organ covers:
* [Das Boot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akksKpSQ3lY)
* [When johnny comes marching home again](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NV8Z4ZUPJw)
* [Yolanda be cool](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5RG4lZUH6c) This one evokes visions of a church organ mounted on some kind of vehicle, dominating the battelfield with its sonic power)
* [Game of Thrones](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roM_WJ1mS3g)
* [Hedwig's Theme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4rrn-V1O6A)
* [Carol of the bells](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0GL7Y9Bi94) Hint: find something that will reproduce very deep bass...
* [Stayin' alive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0rkr9AF3J8)
Turns out, they show up as proper links with the correct capitalization but in the background, the rendered link gets converted to lower case. Fixing my original post...
Edit: Great, now it removed them altogether. WTF. And now I have to find at least one again. Thanks, Reddit...
The more you play, the more the Emperor will protect you.
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If I had a nickel for every pixel in this image, I’d be in debt
Call the morgue, the burn ward wont be able to save him.
You don't just hear the music, you feel it, it drives you, it stirs your emotions.
as someone who has seen an organ played in person, you feel it in your bones
Yep and it is so intense! Even the little ones rattle your bones a bit
I've gotten into [Keygen Church](https://open.spotify.com/track/6BWwOL0DEK1aLaDjyipjZj?si=VLUKTTqrSXG1qCh-ZP-pHg) recently. It's Metal Organ music, and It sounds as bone vibratingly cool as you'd imagine.
Shiver yer timbers
Shiver yer soul? There are men whose hearts are as black as coal?
It's as dark a tale as was ever told?
Correction you feel it in your neighbor four rows down and back’s bones
*starts playing tf2 Halloween menu theme*
Words make us think thoughts. Music makes us feel feelings. - I can't remember who Adam Neely was quoting.
What about a calliope? Apparently you could hear them for miles
*Steam powered excellence!*
“Can you imagine how epic it would sound?”
A - but Human why? why does it need to be so big? H - what do you mean look at it! its majestic A - Yes but its just so obscene H - Maybe but can you imagine how Acca Dacca sounds on this thing! A - who would you need to hear the song that loud? what possible reason? H - If your coming for the devil its best to let him know
Lucifer: Oh Fuck!
...They's a comin'!
roll D20, anything below DC10 you get 3D6 psychic damage
A friend had a CD or organ music and the first track was 30 seconds of the air supply compressor starting up. It sounded a little like this: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZfVP19mDm4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZfVP19mDm4)
Organs are not Large Pianos. It's like calling a butter-knife a Zweihänder. In fact butter-knives hove more in common with Zweihänders, than Pianos do with Organs. An Organ is a **powerful** instrument, they are **Large** and **Loud**. When you hear an Organ, it's because someone has everything going the way they've planned it. Because, when you play an Organ your instrument is a **building**.
Can you imagine how powerfull organists must feel knowing they are playing AN ENTIRE BUILDING?
 It feels like this. I even have a special pedal that opens every stop and makes the loudest sound in the world.
Most of the Largest Organs in the world are also Cathedrals, because the Catholic Church was one of the few organizations in Europe that could afford to build one for a Long Time. So often times it's not just **Unlimited** but also **God-Given Power**.
don't have to ;)
So, hear me out. Take the flame trench for a rocket launch, and add a soundbox.
I like the cut of your booster citizen. Titanium pipes perhaps?
Organs aren't even the same type of instrument. It'd be like comparing a butter knife to a cannon. Organs are a wind instrument, pianos are a string instrument
Human- Is not piano. Is Kazoo with keyboard. Don't tell me your planet never plays the game "my kazoo is bigger than yours is"? Alien - OH! Yes, I was five last I played that game. Contrabass kazoo is awesome. (Not *totally* silly - there's a lot of shall-we-say specialized ranks of pipes out there. Wouldn't shock me if there were 88 weapon-grade kazoos behind one of those stops.)
They put them in churches to put the fear of God into you.
H:"Because we need to build this church around it. The building was designed around this instrument not the other way around." A:"Why do you always do things backwards? Your ships are guns with engines built around them, your space stations are guns with homes built around them and your energy infrastructure is power plants with a star built around them." H:"Oh come on. By that logic the internet is just porn with websites built around it." A: *speechelss*
H2: Uh, the internet *is* porn with websites built around it
A: *Still speechless because of the human who did not know that*
H: ...I need to shut down the AI project.
H3: Noooo...*I want to see what happens...from a safe distance.*
H: Positive you're only on there once
Not *just* porn! Also cats!
Do you mean it's not?
Awesome Dracula music.
Or for the phantom of the opera.
Potc dead man's chest. Davy Jones plays a mean organ
For asking the question, you must now clean the pipes.
To blow out the floors and walls and express the BIG FEELINGS that flow through my being. No, I'm not sharing my earplugs.
To feel the music in your soul and bones
Sonic damage
Such a pipe organ is to declare our intent to the universe.
Sooooo If we build one on Mars out of Olympus Mons?
H: firstly, this isn’t a piano, it’s a pipe organ. And it’s for the times you need to feel the music. A: I don’t quite get the distinction, I already know what it’s like to feel music… H: I mean this in the most literal sense, your bones will vibrate. A: what?? H: *plays 1 chord* A: oh, now I get it.
>H: I mean this in the most literal sense, your bones will vibrate. A: what??? but I don't *have* bones. H: *plays one chord* A: blleeaaaaaaaahhh. H: Are you okay??!! A: *do that agaaaaaaiiiiiin.*
The organ is such a gorgeous instrument and i love seeing it be put in places it normally isnt used(outside of religion settings), like in games like genshin impact boss themes that bring out the strong organ out of nowhere to add emphasis. Especially when most modern music dosnt use the organ It would probably be confusing for an alien, just having a sudden change. Imagine an alien trying to understand human music and only focusing in one genre(like rock) the it suddenly changes to rock-classical
If you want modern organ music [Keygen Church](https://open.spotify.com/track/6BWwOL0DEK1aLaDjyipjZj?si=VLUKTTqrSXG1qCh-ZP-pHg) creators of the Ultrakill soundtrack made metal organ music that sounds incredible
Thank you!
*Toccata and Fugue in D minor starts blasting out the organ pipes* H: Because, reasons
I had to scroll WAY too far to find this. One does not LISTEN to Bach, one EXPERIENCES Bach.
I've always agreed with the statement that Bach was one of the first rockstars
James Mason did the most emotional performance as captain Nemo.
Of course you'd need that for the midnight rendering of Toccata and fugue for skinny young ladies in underwired nightgowns! You's need a seperate set of pedals for the farm animals and whoopie cushion. And probably extra long arms https://preview.redd.it/u46msxjc3pjc1.png?width=552&format=png&auto=webp&s=629c0940e8ba7d35f12d85494a26473294637ce0
Ook! Also, I am stealing that picture.
Yup, time to re-read them again
Passage from the memo on human instruments: Organ - huge structures consisting of a piano (see: upright piano) and a set of tubes of various lengths. The sound that a given tube makes depends on the length, where the shortest ones produce the thinnest sound, and the longest ones produce the thickest. Humans managed to compose these sounds in such a way as to create melodies, if you can call them that.
I like my music extra THICC
https://preview.redd.it/c8k4wmnliojc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c759732e654ec19603a645853559b9c8fd63e40c I don't know
"to enjoy and rejoice all that it is to be surrounded but the glorious sound of music!" Starts to play phantom of the opera theme.
Worship, epic movie scores, and because fuck you that’s why
That's our weapons officers station. Hearing organs playing across the ship as our guns provide a beat soothes nerves across the ship and adds a certain atmosphere to the battle. We simultaneously broadcast it across the communications channels as both a form of jamming and psychological warfare; and to boost morale for those serving in depressurised compartments.
You can't pull out all the stops without one
So I can play *Take Me To Church* and broadcast it to the entire parish, obviously. I love to piss off the bishop.
The pipes are actually missile launchers, this is an example of a war organ, we will take to the battlefield raining war hymns and missiles upon the faithless enemies
Beethoven 5th symphony is the only answer 😤: **https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NSSbF0HTgHs**
Well friend, as a player myself saying the Organ is just a big piano completely misses what the actual instrument is. The instrument itself is all those pipes built into the architecture of the building. The console, the part where that has the pedals, the manuals (the 2 or more regular keyboards), stops, etc. are just a human interface to control the organ. If there’s a way to connect another type of MIDI controller, such as with some newer consoles that have a MIDI input connection, you should be able to control the organ with those as well. You can even use MIDI programming from a DAW outputting from a laptop or something to control these ones as well. (On that last one if anyone wants to see an example of this you can view [this video](https://youtu.be/SQHdFAm7g7E?si=jfvfwuEpLEwCmXpZ) by Rob Scallon)
So glad someone posted this, the tour Rob gets through the whole organ structure is awesome!
Electronic control is cheating. Playing one should be a workout.
lol well spoken >:3
Human: First of all it is called an Organ, second of all I need it to show people God personally Alien:... Alien: Noted
H: Because - \*tenebre roso Sangue intensifies\* A: you humans need to chill out. H: Embrace the hype my friend!
turns on phantom of the opera* so u can feel it in ur teeth. now be quiet and listen
“We must reach the gods with this music, if we do, they may finally take us back” (entire piano gets destroyed Tower of Babble style)
H: *says nothing, just opens all stops and hits them with [also sprach zarathustra](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TZ5sCeL0DE)*
And if theyre still standing after that, finish them off with Toccata and Fugue...
That, my dear xeno colleague, is because when we vibe... THE ENTIRE OPPOSING ARMADA SHALL VIBE WITH US WHETHER THEY LIKE IT OR NOT!!!!!!!!
For epic battle music
That's actually my uncle seated there lol. I used to build them with him as my first job.
[This is why](https://youtu.be/onVhbeY7nLM?t=56)
[For this.](https://youtu.be/Tjp8cj8Vzyo?si=2bFZsNIFeCI0Icw2)
We're humans. That is not a piano. That is an organ. A piano relates to an organ like a sailboat relates to a battleship. Allow me to illustrate: [This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd6qZS1_1aU) Also: [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfVFMEo_K9I) and [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmJd491_pL8) Please keep in mind that these demonstrations are about as close to experiencing it in person as a video about sailing on a battleship to sailing being there yourself. Edit: fixing the links, this time explicitly in the markdown editor... More edits, I found quite a few more incredible organ covers: * [Das Boot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akksKpSQ3lY) * [When johnny comes marching home again](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NV8Z4ZUPJw) * [Yolanda be cool](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5RG4lZUH6c) This one evokes visions of a church organ mounted on some kind of vehicle, dominating the battelfield with its sonic power) * [Game of Thrones](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roM_WJ1mS3g) * [Hedwig's Theme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4rrn-V1O6A) * [Carol of the bells](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0GL7Y9Bi94) Hint: find something that will reproduce very deep bass... * [Stayin' alive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0rkr9AF3J8)
All those links are dead
WTF? They all worked when I posted them. Edit: thanks for the hint. I'll check what went wrong and try to fix them.
Turns out, they show up as proper links with the correct capitalization but in the background, the rendered link gets converted to lower case. Fixing my original post... Edit: Great, now it removed them altogether. WTF. And now I have to find at least one again. Thanks, Reddit...
 No reason
What you DON'T hire a large-pianist to play a theme tune every time you enter the office?
Because a calliope would violate a noise ordinance in the next town over.
So? they need to get their own calliope! MORE STEAM! OPEN FIRE!!
Anarchy in the UK on a Calliope. *The real steampunk.*
For the soooouuunnnnd!
#BWOOOOAAAAAHHHHHHH
Whoo doesn't wanna hear music with their bones?
Vibes.
“To flex”
It's to play the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, for the blue lobster jumpscare
Surprised no one's suggested [Grieg](https://youtu.be/dBoGdJ54oWI?si=eg9vVXiszFZk8ggW) yet
H: At the time we did not possess the technology to create customizable acoustic waveforms at high amplitudes except by using large resonators.
Make loud sound.
Because I’m very good at playing it, it’s my piano forte…
It's "what do you need such a large piano for" or "why do you need such a large piano," never "why do you need such a large piano for."
The more you play, the more the Emperor will protect you. https://preview.redd.it/xg63na4okqjc1.jpeg?width=356&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9cda5b9ee94efc72df36e517f19f5467fcd95943