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Thread #76059   Message #2494129
Posted By: Peter the Squeezer
14-Nov-08 - 04:54 PM
Thread Name: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
In times (long) past, all the old cinema organists used to have thier own signature tune, so that when they came up on the lift from the pit, the audience could tell who was playing.
It has become a sort of tradition, that when one of these old timers passes on, at the moment of committal during their funeral, somebody will get on the crematorium chapel organ, and play thier signature tune as the coffin dissappears.
Some years ago, the body of one of these dear departed musicians was thus despatched to the strains of ...




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