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Thread #106344   Message #2196292
Posted By: RangerSteve
17-Nov-07 - 06:24 PM
Thread Name: Your UNfavorite instrument & why
Subject: RE: Your UNfavorite instrument & why
That's interesting. The first time I heard a recording of Fats Waller on the organ was the first time I liked the organ. As a kid, i couldn't stand them things. Once, while visiting the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC, there was an organ recital, the music being some avant garde unmelodic hooey. The cathedral is has been under construciton since about 1900, and is being buile entirely by hand, just as they were built back in the Middle Ages. It's a big, cavernouse stone place, the music was way too loud, and the organist his a note that consisted of all the keys and all the pipes, and lasted for about one minute. It resounded off the stone walls and was the loudest thing I've ever heard. I wanted to kill the organist and the composer. Fats Waller redeemed the instrument for me, and now I sort of like them.