Pirez wrote: Mon Apr 06, 2026 3:15 pm
According to lots of friends of mine : Organ isn't good because it's featured in a lot of horror movies and therefore the instrument is creepy.
PluMGMK wrote: Mon Apr 06, 2026 11:59 am
Me neither. For context, the parish priest saw me playing a classical piece on the piano at my secondary school graduation, and drafted me in to play the organ, and otherwise I've never been formally trained. So I stick with the manuals and I can already get a decent sound out of it that way, which people seem to like
In fact, yesterday was exactly eleven years, day and date, since I first played with the choir on Easter Sunday…
What an incredible story. It's so curious how one day you can just learn something like that about a person.
Steo wrote: Mon Apr 06, 2026 6:30 pm
Yeah of course the pipe organ can be creepy, but that’s only if you’re playing dissonant chords, like with any instrument. If we start playing major key stuff, I’m sure it won’t sound creepy.
I'd describe that sound more as haunting that creepy anyway, as it has its own beauty.
Hunchman801 wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2026 8:31 am
I forgot about this topic! But I suppose you saw my message in the other one already:
You know, I really want to make fun of you for it, but the fact I've forgotten threads I've made myself before? I have no room to speak.
Steo wrote: Mon Apr 06, 2026 6:30 pm
Yeah of course the pipe organ can be creepy, but that’s only if you’re playing dissonant chords, like with any instrument. If we start playing major key stuff, I’m sure it won’t sound creepy.
Pipe organs can also be freaking awesome. Dude, those are still one of the most impressive instruments around, especially the sheer size of those things. I know it's not the same experience, but I definitely don't mind hearing a good solid pipe organ bass line playing in some songs on my home theater system.
Reese Riverson wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2026 1:37 pm
Pipe organs can also be freaking awesome. Dude, those are still one of the most impressive instruments around, especially the sheer size of those things. I know it's not the same experience, but I definitely don't mind hearing a good solid pipe organ bass line playing in some songs on my home theater system.
There are a lot of instruments like that I never got to play, but I agree organs in general are cool, including the ones that keep us alive.
Jokes aside though, I'd love to have other instruments like that. I mostly only had keyboards, and even only played an actual piano a handful of times. Aside from that, just stuff like guitar, bass, and banjo. Of course, the time I jokingly bought a plastic ukulele too.
It all depends on which voices you activate and what kind of music you're playing...
For context, the parish priest saw me playing a classical piece on the piano at my secondary school graduation, and drafted me in to play the organ, and otherwise I've never been formally trained. So I stick with the manuals and I can already get a decent sound out of it that way, which people seem to like
