[rodgersorgan] Re: Organs & Praise Bands -


if you don't have a good sound man. one that has some sembeilance of what music 
is you can be in trouble.our sound man is very electronic savey. He does a 
great job at toning down the recorded accompaniment. He does many great things 
for our church in the area of sound.HOWEVER the problem comes when the sound 
man thinketh he knoweth more than the music committee.insisting that you mike 
the instrumental players and the end up screeching because the mike is 
distorting their sound. ( believe me this particular violinist would never 
screech by herself.)OR when he tells you there is no mike on the piano but some 
how the piano gets louder than the organ. I guess that is why they call the 
music department the war department. IT is sad that we forget what the 
sanctuary is God's house. I think we can all agree on the fact that it is God's 
house. we have taken a very unique approch to the noise level between 
services.it seems that the hymns that we have been discussing that our mothers 
use to play are being forgotten because they are not being taught someone 
somewhere got the idea that hymns are not fun or good music or whatever the 
reason is. we don't teach them. well we at my church do. forapproach10 minutes 
( 5 min. after the bell rings to end classes). we start singing hymns from the 
hymnal.the neatest thing happened when it started.people don't stay in the 
foyer talking they don't sit in the sanctuary talking they all including most 
of the young people come in sit down and sing.( our church size is 900)it may 
not work for everyone but it has been a very nice change for us.Kathy oliver

HANEYRPH@xxxxxxx wrote:
Noel, you hit the nail on the head with your comments about "Sound Man". Even 
though our church has an antiquated PA system, more and more soloists would 
rather be accompanied by a recording blaring through this, complete with 
far-off choirs which could be compared to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir being 
used as back-up singers. I suppose these soloists, whom evidently cannot sing 
above a whisper (which requires the microphone to be earsplitting high) 
practice these tunes driving in their car, playing them on their CD changers.

I play the prelude in our church, which is hard to hear above the raucous 
crowd laughing and hollering as they gather. Then I sit idle on the bench for 
30 minutes as we go through 3 praise songs, announcements, etc. Sometimes 
play an offertory, then sit down until the end when I play the invitation 
hymn and postlude.

It truly is a downer, as you said, and yes, my (and the pianist's) morale 
does suffer.

Clark Haney Wells
Tahoka, Tx


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