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jvhldb

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What a circus!
This kind of thing always makes me wonder just what is so wrong with everyone having a hymnal and opening it to the proper page. Lots of good tunes in those and the system for communication is pretty trustworthy.

Aloha Fretless,

Yeah, one can wonder about the hue and cry about the use of hymnals.

I agree, a quarter of the congregation is so blind that they can't see the projections so they still sing from the song books. In the old days the songs used to be posted on the boards in the front of the church. Witht the projectors these boards were taken down, so the bats usually come in only halfway during the first verse as they have to page through the songbook when the songs are announced.
 

Contratrombone64

Admiral of Fugues
Yesterday was fun. Shortly after I started playing the backgournd music before the service a mother with two "kids" sat down in the bench before the organ case. The little boy tried to climb the organ case and no amount of stares could deter him. His little sister gave one look around and started screaming so loud that I couldn't hear the organ at all. I decided to use the picollo, which the kid also managed to drown out. On the next change over I added the terts, mikstuur and all the 2' stops and couplers. The girl managed to drown that out as well, but apparently the mother couldn't handle it any more and with a wailing air raid siren under each arm dissapeared into the mothers room.

The rest of the service was nice and quiet on the peanut gallery.

That made me laugh ... not sure how I'd handle that scenario - perhaps accidently dropping one/or both/of the brats off the gallery would be useful?
 

Corno Dolce

Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Wailing air-raid siren, eh? CT64 should maybe find a nice Aussie-gal to marry so that he can become a real man and a father - no more of this single life for him!
 

BrianLarkin

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sound like a million bucks

I do a lot of sub/ interim work as well.... understand your problem!
Explore the Kevin Meyhew catolog......a wealth of NEW organ music coming out of England and Austrailia by some very talented young composers. Depending on your level of keyboard skills, some of this music is almost sightreadable or at least worth the effort to learn it.
Older composers in this series like Malcolm Archer, William Lloyd Webber etc. are among my favorites.
Of course, the beauty of doing sub work and moving around is that you can work up a couple of showstoppers and "take it on the road."
 

jvhldb

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I do a lot of sub/ interim work as well.... understand your problem!
Explore the Kevin Meyhew catolog......a wealth of NEW organ music coming out of England and Austrailia by some very talented young composers. Depending on your level of keyboard skills, some of this music is almost sightreadable or at least worth the effort to learn it.
Older composers in this series like Malcolm Archer, William Lloyd Webber etc. are among my favorites.
Of course, the beauty of doing sub work and moving around is that you can work up a couple of showstoppers and "take it on the road."

Thanks for the info. You don't happen to have a link for the music?
 

dll927

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About what to play - I once heard a story about someone taking a native German to their church. Somehow it came up that they used the "Midsummer Night's Dream" music as a recessional at weddings. The German promptly said, "They play THAT in church???"
 
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