[rodgersorgan] Re: Breaking the rules with mixtures.


pardon my ignorance, but what's all this talk about "rules"? I've never met an 
organist who even mentioned the word "rules" when talking about registration, 
until joining several internet groups, and believe me, I've met a LOT of 
organists, and here in Montreal, we have some of the world's best organs (and 
some of the world's best organists to play them).

I always use the stops the way I want to use them, and I've never been told 
what to do, or what NOT to do. Technically speaking, if you were to have the 
right books in front of you, there are not set rules in registration; none that 
are worth more than the paper they're written on that is. Anyone making up 
rules governing registration, is doing 2 things.....

1) imposing their own tastes in registration, and hoping the world will think 
like them.

2) attempting to smother every organists own sense of 'what works for them'.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with doing whatever you want when seated at 
the organ. Hundreds of years ago, when Bach was alive.....can you imagine if 
anyone dared telling him what stops to use and what you're "allowed" to do? Not 
only would he totally disregard them, but he'd tell them where to go.

I think like Bach.

Carlo Pietroniro
St. Patrick's Basilica
Montreal, Quebec
(loving his 1895 Casavant, Opus 60)
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