Published: April 11, 2019
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To play a grand organ is to be engulfed – by sound, by engineering, by sheer might. The grand romantic organ installed at the Melbourne Town Hall, the largest in the southern hemisphere, features nearly 10,000 pipes and 552 keys.
Its scale is staggering, and hearkens to a time when music was less a precious commodity and more a fact of life, when hearing air forced through pipes was simply an effective way to feel closer to God, rather than art. Sitting before one of the instruments, an organist casts a disarmingly lonely image – consumed by the scale of it all, subsumed by the grandeur.
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