Soubasse
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You know, quite truthfully I don't know what that noise was ... in fact, I didn't notice it until I heard it in the recording after getting home. Or maybe I heard it and was able to ignore the distraction ... after almost 50 years on the bench, noises like that never bother me when I am when playing.
Aye, I'm with you there. It's extraordinary what one can zone out whilst playing and you don't realise until listening back to it afterwards. I suspect there'll be plenty of others here who are blithely accustomed to many a distraction. These days for example, I just roll my eyes when emergency vehicle (with sirens) come blaring by during a morning mass (our cathedral is a few hundred metres down the road from the Fire Dept. Frankly, I think they often wait until it's just after 9 on a Sunday morning and then go for a test run - there can't always be that many emergencies at the same time on a Sunday morning ... can there??)
Indeed ... from an organist standpoint, it's equally as interesting to play the same piece in different environments too.
The first time I ever played Franck Choral III, was on a modest 2-manual instrument in a quite dry acoustic. When I finally got to play it on a sizeable 3-manual in an equally sizeable acoustic, it was so much fun not to have to play some parts so "over" legato!