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Post by mnhermit on Feb 6, 2014 2:44:28 GMT -5
One of my high school classmates is giving/performing/  a pipe organ concert at the First Lutheran Church in Rockford, IL this Sunday. He was pretty good last time I heard him and he's had 44 years of practice   (Rockford is somewhere around Chicago isn't it?) |
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Post by drlj on Feb 6, 2014 8:34:54 GMT -5
Rockford is about 85 miles northwest of Chicago.
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Post by mnhermit on Feb 6, 2014 8:37:13 GMT -5
oh,,,,nevermind
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Post by Marshall on Feb 6, 2014 9:18:53 GMT -5
Rockford is about 85 miles northwest of Chicago. Maybe 85 miles NW of your severely S location. But much closer for me. Probably 50 mi. I go out to Rockford on occaission. Jim Worland's shop is out there. But I'm not much of an organ buff. We've got a nice pipe organ in our church. I'd trade it for a couple of nice Worland guitars, personally. (Probably 100 at the price differntial  ) Don't mean to be so funky. Organ recitals are the highest form of the instrument's art. I'm sure it will be a wonderful concert for those that love the big robustness only a good pipe organ can give. Didn't Boris Karloff play organ? |
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Post by drlj on Feb 6, 2014 9:48:16 GMT -5
I was directing from here so that adds about 30 miles.
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Post by Cornflake on Feb 6, 2014 12:35:08 GMT -5
We have a primo pipe organ in our church. It's moving in a literal sense to sit through a recital. Your innards vibrate. I've greatly enjoyed some recitals when the organist is first rate and not too conservative in choosing pieces to play.
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Post by xyrn on Feb 6, 2014 14:42:25 GMT -5
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Post by millring on Feb 6, 2014 15:06:11 GMT -5
I really liked the Rockford Files. James Garner was wonderful.
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Post by drlj on Feb 6, 2014 15:24:52 GMT -5
If you go to Rockford, just about every hardware store sells files. They have some really big Bastards.
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Post by xyrn on Feb 6, 2014 18:04:10 GMT -5
I really liked the Rockford Files. James Garner was wonderful. Does that make you a Rockfordphile? |
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Post by drlj on Feb 6, 2014 19:08:32 GMT -5
Rockford is about 85 miles northwest of Chicago. Maybe 85 miles NW of your severely S location. But much closer for me. Probably 50 mi. I go out to Rockford on occaission. Jim Worland's shop is out there. The latest issue of Vintage Guitar has a nice review of the Worlland Prairie. It is one of his lower priced($2000) plainly appointed guitars. The review is quite good. |
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Post by Shannon on Feb 6, 2014 19:11:43 GMT -5
Maybe 85 miles NW of your severely S location. But much closer for me. Probably 50 mi. I go out to Rockford on occaission. Jim Worland's shop is out there. The latest issue of Vintage Guitar has a nice review of the Worlland Prairie. It is one of his lower priced($2000) plainly appointed guitars. The review is quite good. I own the first OM Worland sold (at least he told me when I ordered it that no one had ordered an OM from him before). I love it. |
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Post by coachdoc on Feb 7, 2014 10:52:26 GMT -5
I took a summer college Spanish course between HS and collitch at Univ. of Pennsylvania. For about 3 weeks there was a music student preparing for a recital of Bach's music on the massive pipe organ they had in the main concert hall. I would eat lunch on the stage surrounded by all those pipes then lay back and feel the organ and stage vibrate my entire body. It was absolutely glorious.
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Post by Marshall on Feb 7, 2014 10:55:03 GMT -5
Made for better digestion I would guess.
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Post by millring on Feb 7, 2014 12:00:42 GMT -5
They oughta do this one:
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a pipe organ concert at the First Lutheran Church in Rockford, IL this Sunday. He was pretty good last time I heard him and he's had 44 years of practice 
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