After reading Henry Ward Beecher’s idea below, hear it confirmed with Greensleeves played on a pipe organ (click here).
It is the most complex of all instruments, it is the most harmonious of all, it is the grandest of all. Beginning far back, growing as things grow which have great and final uses, growing little by little, it has come now to stand, I think, immeasurably, transcendently, above every other instrument, and not only that, but above every combination of instruments . . . you can combine instruments in such a way as to do some things which the organ cannot do, yet the finest orchestra that ever stood on earth, compared on the whole with the organ, is manifestly its inferior. No orchestra that ever existed had the breadth, the majesty, the grandeur, that belong to this prince of instruments.
(Quoted from page 8 of Music As Prayer: The Theology and Practice of Church Music, by Thomas H. Troeger. Oxford University Press, 2013.)
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