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MineralMan

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5. No. My interest in pipe organs comes from a summer spent
Fri Nov 30, 2018, 02:24 PM
Nov 2018

interning for an organ builder as he installed a major organ in my hometown church. I was just 16, and worked alongside the man as he installed, set up and prepared the organ for its first use. I learned a great deal from that, and have maintained my interest in those instruments ever since.

I did learn to play to some degree, but only well enough to play a couple of Bach Preludes and Fugues through. I was a woodwind player and vocalist, not a keyboard player.

So, I go to places with major or historical organs to listen to them. Once, while in Germany, I listened to an organ that had been played by Bach himself in an old church. The organist let me take the bench, and I played one of those preludes on it. I'm sure the shade of Bach was wincing the entire time. The organist certainly was, but was a good-humored man.

The Crystal Cathedral had very poor acoustics and too many hard, echoing surfaces. It muddied almost any music played on that organ.

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