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omg. best of luck!! they sound amazing, incidentally
I'm glad I went! It was interesting, and I was correct about it being an instrument that doesn't youtubify well.
The lower pitches had some of that chest rumble/goose bumps on the back of the neck resonance you can't get out of laptop speakers. And it was complicated! The performer needed an assistant to help her press buttons and knobs and stuff, on account of only possessing the median human number of hands.
It sounded brassier than I expected (compared to using the "Organ" mode on an electric keyboard, or listening to a cheap mp3 of this song), which, like. Makes sense. Also, not quite as full/resonant (again, as the imaginary one in my head) but this may have been the venue. (At intermission there was a helpful mini-tutorial on What Is Pipe Organ so I'm more informed about Things maybe.)
I think I'd be interested in hearing it used in more contemporary music, and maybe one with a wider range of pitches.