[Howlers]

There was something towards the front of A & M Revised which was equally open to misinterpretation. I forget the hymn number and the exact phrase but it included the words sick men and beds, plus another I completely forget.

 

I was much too young to understand why the older boys in the choir found it funny but laughed anyway...

Hi all

It's slightly off topic on this thread, but recently, a member of the congregation reading the intercessions, started to read the list of those needing prayers, who were ill, under the heading of those who had died.

Jonathan

[Sub And Super Octaves (and Unison Off)]

OK, so the suspense is killing you all...

 

...otherwise you risk a comment in the tuning book "something's wrong with the Swell - none of the stops work any more" from the next person who plays!

 

Hi all

In a sort of opposite version of the last comment, I asked once, as to why some stops were working without being drawn. ?

______ "check the crescendo pedal !"

 

Jonathan

[Howlers]

Hi everybody

In the programme for last Sunday's service at my church, - in the hymn "For the fruits of his creation" the third line was printed as "for his 'gits' to ev'ry nation"

 

Jonathan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This reminds me of a joke by Rory Bremner shortly after ClassicFM started, and when Henry Kelly was presenting a show on it. Bremner, speaking as if he was Kelly announced "That was Dvorak's New World Symphony, doesn't say who it was by!".

[Help With Organ Anecdote]

Hello All

 

The version that I have heard is that WTB arranged to demonstrate an organ to a local dignatory (spelling?), when the chap didn't show up, WTB made to depart, only to encounter him on the stairs. "I've come to hear the organ he said, whereupon WTB made his way back to the organ, jammed some keys down with a broken pencil and left.

 

Jonathan

[St Pauls Cathedral]

Yes Please Simon

Thanks very much

Jonathan Thornton

 

(companypleasant on forum)

Poole

Dorset

[Recital Health Warnings]

re my previous post ---apologies---

 

just search for hector c parr

[Recital Health Warnings]

Hi everybody

re. the discussion on recital health warnings and the "visibility" of the organist, the article by Hector C. Parr on the web , titled "Organs and the music lover" is interesting (and his others)

Search for www.c_parr.freeserve.co.uk/hcp/muslov.htm

 

Jonathan