Preludes for Nov. 22--Mennonite Hymnal (yes, the old rusty red 1969 book) # 521 and 522. Two traditional harvest/thanksgiving hymns--"We Plow the Fields and Scatter,"and James Montgomery's "The God of Harvest Praise." Montgomery was one of America's great hymn writers. The 1969 Menno Hymnal carried 14 of his hymns. Our current blue hymnal has 7 of his.
What is a prelude? How do you say it? Do people need quiet music to prepare for worship? Or loud?
I keep asking the questions even though the answers are a work in process, I believe. With this being the Sunday before Thanksgiving Day I pulled out some big stops and made some noise. What is a stop in organ talk? Let me show you.
Here is the console of the organ. See the two keyboards? Right above those are a row of tabs. Flip one of those and you activate a certain set of pipes. This photo looks funny because I pulled the bench out of the way .
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