The Tabernacle and Antelope Island State Park, Salt Lake City, Utah

The Tabernacle is a oval shaped building in the Mormon temple square. It used to be used for meetings of church members, but since the amount of people grew the Tabernacle has not been big enough to hold everyone. Now it is used for choirs and organ recitals. The first demonstration in the Tabernacle wasn’t with the organ at all.  The first thing was a customary demonstration of the buildings acoustics.  To start off the person up front ripped a piece of paper, and sure enough I could hear the tear at the back of the building.  Next he dropped two pins and a nail.  The first two sounded like someone beating small drums right next to my ear.  The third sounded like muffled thunder. As he did the demonstration I read the brochure about the organ and how it was built. I read that it used to be much smaller until a series of developments grew it. Now it is huge with over 1000 pipes.

When we finally got to the organ part of the organ recital he played six songs: Hymne au Soleil, Wachet auf, Ruft uns die Stimme, Angelus, hymn: Come, Come, ye Saints, An Old Melody, and Orb and Sceptre March. I personally would have been fine with just two songs, because by the end I was getting a bit board and drowsy.

After the organ recital was over we visited the Joseph Smith Memorial Building to research our genealogy.  I didn’t find much. I had to put my name in to an I-pad then hooked it up to a computer and got information. I learned that there were 18000 people with my first name, and 186 people with my last name. My dad started a family tree on his parents.