Mara, pianos differ from organs because when you strike a piano key it hammers a string and bounces off. If you want to hear that note again you must restrike the key. In an organ the note sustains itself for as long as the key remains depressed. A Boesendorfer piano has a unique sound due to a complex combination of hammers, felts, sound boards and strings. The grand church organ in Salzburg sounded as it did due to a unique combination of bellows, organ pipes, and the church's acoustics.
The earlier electronic keyboards each have a unique sound because that was the only sound built into them. Looking backwards, they were limited by what the manufacturers could or did make available. The Hammond organ makes a special sound because its electronic circuits produce unique loudspeaker oscillations. When the Oberheim came out I believe the factory offered a limited number of plug-in sound cards. So although samples can mimic any sound, samples cannot replace the feel, sensation and technique of playing the original instrument.