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🗓️ 20 August 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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0:00.0 | The sound of children eating leaves much to be desired, |
0:03.6 | but it beats them banging on with things like, |
0:06.0 | Wow, my fingers all muddy, |
0:08.0 | or please can we get a pet snake? |
0:10.5 | That's why at Burger King, |
0:12.4 | kids can now get a King Junior meal on the BK app for free between the 19th of August to the 4th of September. |
0:19.0 | Download now for a moment's peace this summer holiday. |
0:22.0 | Get one free King Junior meal with one selected adult burger meal, |
0:25.0 | only available at selected restaurants. |
0:27.0 | Four Tees and sees at Burger King. UK forward slash kids-offer. Even if you have no interest in music at all, there's a strong chance that you could |
0:39.5 | hum at least one famous piece of organ music. Pipe organs of all sizes and shapes have been the ceremonial |
0:46.6 | instrument of choice for centuries, accompanying weddings, funerals, coronations, Inaugurations, Thanksgiving's and more. |
0:54.0 | Although of course it's the air being forced through the pipes that makes the sound. |
0:59.1 | As a listener it can feel as if the building the organ is in is really the instrument, as every last note resonates |
1:06.6 | between the walls and off the rafters. |
1:10.2 | At its best, the organ is a glorious, versatile, subtle machine |
1:15.0 | for turning air into art. |
1:17.0 | And yet, its very ubiquity can make us blind to its presence. |
1:22.0 | We just assume it will be there in the church or the town hall because it always has been, |
1:27.2 | played by an invisible figure tucked up far away on a bench we cannot see. |
1:38.0 | When the organ is unappreciated and allowed to fall into disuse, we notice only when its sonorous notes are replaced by the tinny rattle of a portable speaker instead. It's always there, the soundtrack to our biggest moments, until it isn't. |
1:49.0 | I've been fascinated by the organ since I was a child, and it's a cherished ambition of mine to one day learn to play it for myself. |
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