Accident
I got interested in organ by pure accident and happenstance. But I have always been drawn to the incredible sound of hundreds of "voices" at the same time, and can listen to a well-played organ for hours and hours, just taking in the sounds if not neccesarily melody and organist skill.
What catches me about the organ is probably the sheer power of having hundreds or thousands of pipes underneath your fingers - the power of sending chills down peoples neck and, in church situations, of determining HOW and WHEN they sing, and WHAT they sing :grin:
I also absolutely love to pull everything and make the organ thunder with all that it has out in an full-packed churchroom - maybe it is a quite common notion? The opposite is also true: A single, beautifull 8" flute, and a 16" bass in the pedals with the 8" coppled to the pedals, and then play simple, medium-pace compositions (or just the 8" for pieces without pedal notes).
Another thing that makes me all fuzzy and warm are all the old organs with stories older than methusalem - from the 1700's, 1800's etc. I can spend hours snooping around a little (or big) old organ, retrieving bits and pieces of the past, reconstructing its history, puzzling about how it might have looked originally, scoff at misplaced changes and admire well integrated modernisations. (My grandpa was a carpenter, it has stuck). Sometimes the snooping and looking thing is better than the actual *playing*.
My ambition? Learn. Everything there is to know about organs. Everything that can be played. Play beautifull music and communicate the beauty of the hundreds of thousands of pipes to the "common man". I also want to learn how to play bells (word?) and learn how to combine those two things. (Here in Løgumkloster we have a transportable set of bells that can be rolled off its dolly and into a church room, for example - and a concert for choir, organ and bells is really something to be heard)