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Originally Posted by gzent Brad,
I assume it was a pipe organ, not a digital? Decent digital organs like Rogers or Allen can change their pitch easily.
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It was indeed a pipe organ. I've played with it many times before but not for a couple years. The pitch wasn't great then but it was workable. It's really slipped since then. I've got to talk to the new pastor about it. It's actually a very nice instrument when it's in tune.
My favorite memory of that organ was graduating from high school in that church. The entrance hymn was Hymn to St. Michael(the school was St. Michael's) and I was playing with two other trumpets and the organ. When the grads came in they started doing school cheers over the music. I didn't mind it(I thought it was pretty cool) but the orgnist was a priest at the school and cranked the organ up to drown out the grads, who cheered louder. Being surrounded by a great loud organ playing a hymn that had practically been my national anthem through school with my friends cheering for the school below me...it was amazing.