So What is Everyone All About

[music2skateby]

What do you do as an organist?

Who are or is everyone out there?

It would be great to know.

Me?

I'm 41 years old
Roller skating organist in Arizona
grew up as a amatuer roller skater and fell in love with the organ
Dream: To play for a Ball Game
Dream 2: To play at the Paramount in Oakland CA or Radio City Music Hall in NY.

[M1994]

I'm 19 years old
Played a church mass bout 10 years ago
I can rebuild a motor

Not a dream, but a desire, to get a new organ at my church.

[gdoran]

I'm not a organist at all. I do have a 10 yr. son who has played 4 years of piano and started playing organ last December. I have played cornett, french horn, and guitar. My son has been blessed with opprotunities to play at our church service on the piano, some day he would like to be a music director/organist.

[mikecala]

I am 56 years old
Have been a church organist/choir director continually for 40 years
My day job is Executive Assistant to the CEO of a high tech manufacturning company in Silicon Valley
I have been fortunate to play the organs in Grace Cathedral, SF; St. Patrick's, NYC and St. Johns's Cathedral in Knoxville, TN and have videos of each. (It helps to have been a past Dean of my local AGO chapter)
I have two dogs, a Cairn Terrier (yes, a Toto dog) and a West Highland White Terrier
I attended the San Francisco Culinary Academy in the mid '80s and can throw a fabulous dinner party
I live in 1906 Victorian that I am restoring room by room.
Mike

[Orgrinder010]

Ill try to go by the implied format here:

Nathan Wilcox
Age: Wouldn't you like to know?
Organ of Choice: Heavily Modified L133 - Robert Morton Theatre Organ
Music of Choice: Jazz (Jimmy Smith)/Classic Rock (steppenwolf)

Been playing since the age of 3, Mostly theatre type stuff (jesse crawford, jim riggs...), then moved to Rock and Jazz.

[music2skateby]

Outstanding! Everyone Keep it up!! This is great!

Thank you Thank you!

[Allan]

I have my own law practice in Southern California. My hobbies include reading, playing golf (Saturday mornings at a local golf course), watching college football and playing on my Allen organ at home. I am a volunteer teacher of high school students at my church and I am currently studying spanish since I will be going on a short trip to Mexico with my church in a few weeks. Nowadays, I only play the organ outside my home at weddings. The people I most admire are Pope John Paul, Billy Graham, J.S. Bach and Ronald Reagan.

All the best.

[AllanP]

Allan Plunkett
64 years old
Organ of Choice: Style D Wurlitzer pipe organ
Music of Choice: Transcriptions, theatre organ
Lessons: Started at 35 years old for first lessons, now taking lessons again from an excellent teacher, Donna Parker
Profession: Electrical Engineer, develop motor drives and controls primarily for transportation applications
Home Instrument Have my own pipe organ installed in my house, Wurlitzer
Subscribe: Diapason, Theatre Organ

[diapason]

HI!
I am a church organist (35 Yrs.) to be exact. Played the church circuit, R.C., Baptist,
Methodist, Lutheran.
I am presently employed at a Lutheran congregation, probibly for the duration of my time.
I am 68 years old, AND have no desire to move around anymore.
I think i'll stay put.
I have a real "decent" practice organ in my home, and enjoy all the organ literature of
the masters.




Diapason

[ChrisC]

music2skateby wrote:
Roller skating organist in Arizona
grew up as a amatuer roller skater and fell in love with the organ
Dream: To play for a Ball Game
Dream 2: To play at the Paramount in Oakland CA or Radio City Music Hall in NY.>

How do you roller skate and play the organ at the same time? :-}

I'm 52, I had lessons in 1979-1981, but lost interest for a while (maybe I should have tried skating at the same time).
Found e-bay, found a Hammond Elegante and a Yamaha E-70 then a Leslie and started all over again.
I play for myself and family, but who knows...someday...? I like classical mostly and general easy listening/pop

Someday I would like to install a pipe organ in my house.