tomasitok2
New member
Hello,
I must beggin my post saying I'm a self-thaught organ player that spents most time playing in a church organ during services. To the day, I used to play the pedals only with my toes and didn't care much of articulations, as I only had an accompainment function. I recently bought an electronic AGO pedalboard from www.midiworks.ca which is such a blessing and I'm desiring to improve my pedal technique, so I bought Joyce Jones' "Pedal Mastery" book for that purpose. As I come from a poor country, I couldn't import an organ bench, so I asked a carpenter to make one for me. I asked for some official measures, and made it according to AGO specification.
The thing is, when I sat down and tried to play, I noticed it's quite uncofortable to play low notes, specially with my right foot, and high notes, specially with my left foot. I tried adjusting the bench (getting it back and forth), tried with different sitting positions, but the result is just the same, reaching extreme notes with the opposite side food is painful. I even tried pivoting my body, balancing the weight to the right when playing low notes, and while it does help a bit, I find I have to tilt myself quite a lot, and I'm worried that when I mix this movement while playing the keyboards, it will be uncomfortable aswell (already tried).
As a matter of fact, I have short legs, and I'm worried the bench is too high for me, but I'm worried of not reaching the keyboards properly.
Do you have any suggestion to me? Thanks in advance for your answer and comprehension.
I must beggin my post saying I'm a self-thaught organ player that spents most time playing in a church organ during services. To the day, I used to play the pedals only with my toes and didn't care much of articulations, as I only had an accompainment function. I recently bought an electronic AGO pedalboard from www.midiworks.ca which is such a blessing and I'm desiring to improve my pedal technique, so I bought Joyce Jones' "Pedal Mastery" book for that purpose. As I come from a poor country, I couldn't import an organ bench, so I asked a carpenter to make one for me. I asked for some official measures, and made it according to AGO specification.
The thing is, when I sat down and tried to play, I noticed it's quite uncofortable to play low notes, specially with my right foot, and high notes, specially with my left foot. I tried adjusting the bench (getting it back and forth), tried with different sitting positions, but the result is just the same, reaching extreme notes with the opposite side food is painful. I even tried pivoting my body, balancing the weight to the right when playing low notes, and while it does help a bit, I find I have to tilt myself quite a lot, and I'm worried that when I mix this movement while playing the keyboards, it will be uncomfortable aswell (already tried).
As a matter of fact, I have short legs, and I'm worried the bench is too high for me, but I'm worried of not reaching the keyboards properly.
Do you have any suggestion to me? Thanks in advance for your answer and comprehension.