Feh. I just HOPE you are not talking about one of those home-version Wurlitzers. Nah, gimme a good theatre pipe organ anyday. Nothing like a Bombard 16 pedal throbbing under your toes, a Great to Pedal 8 and the Subbass 16 undulating throughout your whole body, while the Tibia Clausa and a Diapason wrack and swell, and to top it off, the Vox Humana tickling the inner ear, echoing through your brain, and sending pleasurous shivers down your spine. Ah, the music ends far too soon. And don’t even get me started on the Enchamade (with spun flared ends, of course).
I really, really used to like taking organ lessons. An electronic keyboard just doesn’t cut it.
But I have stronger opinions about organelles. I saw a contractile vacuole do its thing once under a stereomicroscope and it nearly brought me to tears. I’ve also enjoyed the ribosome. Industrious little bugger.
I’m a big fan of the liver, because it does so much. And I admire the design of the eyes, and their extreme usefulness. But my overall favorite organs are the external reproductive organs, because they’re so much fun to play with!
Well, of course I meant a theater organ, screech-owl! Real air through real pipes can blow tinny little electronically amplified tuning forks out of the water with no sweat.
I’ve always been rather partial to the lungs. They deliver oxygen to your circulatory system, but more importantly they have an impressive degree of elasticity, which allows them to act as a sort of bellows for speech production. Yay!
I would have to say the small intestine, specifically the duodenum. I was gonna say brain, but that didn’t seem appropriate seeing as I was born anencephalic and all.
Yes, the spleen is elegant. It serves two functions: it removes old, tired red blood cells from the circulation and it’s vital in fighting bloodborne infections.