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Hi, I'm new to M.I.M.F.and I have been playing the organ for about 18 months, and am absolutely besotted with the instrument! I do have a teacher, but I don't want to keep 'pestering' him with questions over the 'phone hence my joining M.I.M.F. This is the first of many questions. I own a Viscount Jubilaeum 32. 24 stops, two manuals 32 radial pedal board one swell pedal. Most of my current rep is baroque, but I also love french organ music. The instrument I have is obviously deficient in stops and manuals with regards to playing 19th./20th.C. music none the less, undeterred I have recently been exploring/working on a sumptuous little piece by Langlais 'Prelude Modal' The problem I'd like solutions to (and also applicable to similar repertoire), is this. If I must have one foot on the swell pedal for the numerous 'hair pins' how do I play legato pedal with one foot? My teacher told me that often the organist would have an 'assistante' to operate the swell box! Failing this, am I really supposed to squirm one footed around the pedalboard?Can I, or should I be using a minimally detatched articulation shortening the pedal note lengths thus giving the one foot time to move from pedal to pedal? Hoping for answers - hoofdwerk.
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