I started playing the pipe organ very recently. And during my research for my speech for English class I learned loads about the pipe organ, including what the pipes are made of, the different types of pipes, the console, the wind mechanism, how people used to pump wind to the pipe organ way back when, the fact that the pipe organ was invented before the piano...
Organists are a dying breed. I intend to become one (if I decide I don't want that as my career, I can just do that in my spare time). Everyone during the Spring Piano Recital was impressed by the fact that I was the very first student ever to play a piece on the pipe organ. The piece I played was J.S. Bach's Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor (actually I only played the Tocatta... the Fugue goes on and on and on and on and on...)
If you wanna know what the Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor sounds like, here's a link:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o
The Tocatta ends and the Fugue begins where it sounds like there should be an ending but there isn't.
This isn't how I played it, for this reason: All pieces are written a certain way but is played differently between musicians according to how it is interpreted by the individual. For example one person's forte is another one's fortissimo or one may hold a fermata for three beats while another holds one for two measures.
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