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Thread #27240   Message #335367
Posted By: Naemanson
06-Nov-00 - 02:06 PM
Thread Name: Help: un favorite instruments
Subject: RE: Help: un favorite instruments
Thread Creep!

Mousethief, you mentioned Bach's Tocatta and Fugue In D Minor on an organ. Brought this experience to mind.

Back in the 70's I had a girlfriend who lived in Connecticut. I was in the Navy and stopped by to visit on my way home for Christmas. She led me up to the church where she played the pipe organ. It was dark and the only light in the place was the light on her music. She played that piece into the empty church and the goosebumps crawled up my spine. When she finished we stood together in the empty church listening to the evening when the bells in the steeple began to ring out a Christmas carol. I could feel her shiver as she stepped close to me and said, "There isn't anyone else here, they shouldn't be ringing!" My goosebumps now had goosbumps of their own.