 
Organ-isms - Anecdotes from the World of the King of Instruments
Jenny Setchell
ISBN: 978-0-473-14286-5
paperback
Number of pages: xviii+265 pages
Chapters: 15
© Jenny Setchell 2008 (reprinted 2009)
Reviewer: Kelly Ferjutz
Review of Organ-isms - Anecdotes from the World of the King of Instruments published on 20 May 2009
Preludes
Contents
Foreward
Preface
Thanks to ...
Acknowledgements and Sources
Websites
Organists & Organs:
Manual labour
Giving concerts:
Rehearsing, or, the battle of the vacuum cleaners
Locked in
Locked out
In concert
Audiences misbehaving
Another suitcase, another hall - organists on tour
A noisy noise annoys an organist
In Church:
How to survive a sermon without waking others
They wanted what?
Beware the Brides
(and their mothers) of March
Clergy, choirs and congregation
Plein Mischief
Benchmarks
Organists at large:
Characters
Living dangerously
Accidentals will happen
Hand-Pumping Blowers
Critically speaking
Teachers, pupils and simply children
The Ignorant - blissful and otherwise
Maybe apocryphal, maybe not
The dodgy side
Merely musing
Organs Behaving badly:
Ciphers, crescendo pedals or just plain weird
Noises off and stops on
Organ builders and tuners
Animals:
Cats - great and small
Dogged - by bats and birds
Two Personal views:
Triumphs and tribulations of an organ tuner's life
In Tune
Mistooks
Pure Poetry:
Oh Rancid Flaps of Ancient Suede
The Organ-Blower
The Organ-Blower II
Our Organ's Firm Foundations
Contributors
Index
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