[rodgersorgan] Re: Getting around

Actually it's not doomed to fail because mine didn't.  I had the church
treasurer, who was also a member of the choir, the parish treasurer, who was
also a choir member, and one of the alto's from the choir.  They were put on
the committee because the council president felt members of the choir were
going to be more intimately acquainted with it and would be willing to put
more effort into the project.  We had a $23,000 limit which was a figure the
church council pulled out of the air, and we started our search.  I guess
some people feel they are the guardian of the church's money (or someone
asked her why we had to spend so much on a new organ when the old one still
played) and that's the cause of people wanting to buy the least expensive
instrument--although no one on the committee disagreed that we needed a new
organ--just how much we should spend.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Noel Heinze [mailto:noel.heinze@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 9:42 AM
To: rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [rodgersorgan] Re: Getting around



Ref playing other organs and keeping up with builders' products...hear,
hear, and hear!  It also adds to one's stature/reputation/credibility to be
seen as someone who, after all, knows what he/she is talking about.  One
just might have more influence on music committees and other powers-that-be.

Speaking of committees, several of you have talked about assorted problems
with organ selection committees...large Pandora's Box, of course...one thing
dumbfounds me:  if your committee has or had members who are opposed to the
purchase or improvement from the get-go because "we already have music" or
because of $$ or because they don't like the way you comb your hair, or
whatever, what in tarnation are they doing on the committee in the first
place?  Who put them there?  If the committee's scope/mission includes the
option of not doing anything, no changes, the presence of such
attitudes/mind sets should give way to appointing members who are
willing/able to consider other options as well...otherwise it's a very
stacked deck doomed to fail.

Noel Heinze, Asheville, NC
St. Giles Chapel, Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community
Rodgers 835B and PR300S


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