organs, crosses, and mandalas

oh boy! first-plymouth congregational church is having a big auction in their church. they're selling crosses. as if turning God' s building into a marketplace isnt bad enough. lets sell our icons and ideology.

and may i remind you: first plymouth has one of the most grand organs for hundreds of miles. (photos from here and here) i will admit, when i was in the men's glee choir and sang beneath these pipes, i had chills running down my spine for about 20 minutes. awesome. (make sure you listen to it here)










































though i tend to side with presbyteer concerning the correlation between a church's understanding/clarity of the gospel and the size of their organ. (see his graph below)























the fun part about this story, is that its ties into tradition. tradition and stigma has it that a church needs to have a big gran ol organ. with Fat sound. true.

but these things cost money. a lot of money. like half a mill (ref). funny that a church with a half a mill organ needs to use their place of worship to sell crosses. but anyways...

its time to break out of tradition. i would LOVE to see a church use a Nord C1 Combo Organ with a sweet set of speakers. Nord's are notoriously good at replicating many different organ and keyboard sounds. For a fraction of the cost. my roomate has a nord electro, i have a fender rhodes from the 70's; the other night we got the nord to sound exactly like the rhodes. seriously. if i were cool, i would put sound bits up. but im not.