Pipe Organs by Steve Thomas - Book Report/Review Example

I gained knowledge on the factors and methods that are by the organ builders to ensure that the organ can produce a range of sounds. These include the choice of the pipe types, pitch changes, altering the shape of the pipes, and combining different pipes to make a set. This reinforced my previous knowledge that a pipe organ could produce a range of different sounds (Thomas).

            The article helped me to understand some vocabularies used in music such as harmonics and ‘stop’. Although I had come across these terms in music previously, this article served to increase my understanding of their use in different contexts. Moreover, I came to the realization that there is a misconception surrounding pipe organs which has made people believe that they are only used in churches and that they produce boring music. This article enlightened me to realize that pipe organs are used in different places in the modern-day especially concert halls and universities. Interestingly, there are electronic organs that make use of digital technology to produce sounds similar to those produced by normal pipe organs (Thomas).