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OK...True Story. I was contracted to play a Wedding in a 150 year old Catholic Church in heavily populated, inner City Boston. I thought it would be wise to go the night before and practice on the pipe organ, as it was unfamiliar to me, and i was used to playing an electric Hammond B3. So I went over there saturday night and asked the priest if i could practice on the organ. "Sure," he said. "I'll let you in. Just don't touch the red button." (Ha Ha Ha, I thought, this guy is funny...that's a good joke hahaha) So I climbed up the narrow wooden stairs, turned on a little light, and fired up the old pipe organ. It had four manuals and LOTS of couplers and stops, and I was having a wonderful time! I played and played and played, and suddenly saw a red button that said "chimes". "Chimes!" I thought. "I LOVE chimes! Wouldn't it be nice to play Mendelssohn's Wedding March as a Recessional with added CHIMES! I'll just turn them on...." I barely kissed the red button with my fingertip, and the HUGE Bell in the church tower started "chiming" BONG, BONG BONG, BONG and the priest came running into the church screaming "Turn it off! Turn it off! Press the red button again!" Which I did, but in the meantime, the entire neighborhood had awaked and thought that Jamaica Plain MA was under nuclear attack.