{"product_id":"creative-small-organ-hymn-playing-registration","title":"Creative Small Organ Hymn Playing Registration","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy Vidas Pinkevicius \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(get free updates of new posts \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/hz_z2\" href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/hz_z2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Ausra and I had traveled across Lithuania with numerous organ demonstrations, we found many village churches which housed beautiful yet small organs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSometimes local organists asked us to play some hymns during the service which preceded our demonstration.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBefore doing that we would listen to the local organist register the hymns and were often amazed at how boring and one-sided their choices were.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJohn from Australia also has this challenge. The organ at his new church has 2 manuals and pedals - only 13 stops total - multiple 8' stops, a few 4' stops, 2-rank Mixture and Bourdon 16' in the pedals (plus the usual couplers, of course).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe wants to add variety in his hymn playing registration but fears that his playing would be too soft to lead congregational singing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt doesn't have to be this way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI had an experience in the US playing 3 stop one manual organ (Gedackt 8', Flute 4' and Principal 2' in the facade) on Saturday night services at our Grace Lutheran church chapel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou wanna know what I did?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI counted how many color combinations can I have in this instrument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd I used them all in my hymn playing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8, 4, 2, 8\/4, 8\/2, 4\/2, 8\/4\/2.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7 combinations! Not once was I criticized about the stop choices (the pastor didn't like my tempos sometimes but that's a story for another time).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCan you count how many combinations are there on a 13 stop organ?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI tried to do this on my \"Creative Small Organ Hymn Playing Registration\" training but I literally lost count.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBe brave.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMake your goal to find one more registration combination which nobody else uses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVideo training. Length - 1 hour.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.organduo.lt\/total-organist.html\"\u003eFree for Total Organist students\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secrets of Organ Playing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39089346124,"sku":"null","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1617\/3503\/products\/Small_Organ_Hymn_Playing_Registration_snippet.JPG?v=1493925638","url":"https:\/\/secretsoforganplaying.com\/products\/creative-small-organ-hymn-playing-registration","provider":"Secrets of Organ Playing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}