So... is this the part where I say hi?

[amar]

Hi!

My name's Jacob. Or TheSpoonMan, due to my unparalelled mastery of the spoons (uh... sorta). I play them decently, and whistle almost-decently, as well as random other woodwinds (and harmonica and mandolin). Nothing very well, despite what people tell me. I play music at church, celtic and otherwise (our worship team is like standard keyboard/guitar lineup plus tinwhistle/flute/harmonica. It's fun). Will be learning bagpipes hopefully. And... that is me.

but...can you compare with the blue raja, the master of the forks?

[SteveK]

Hello. Can you play runcible spoons. It's an art all to itself, as is playing the paper bag.

[TheSpoonMan]

Thanks for the replies, all!

When did the standard lineup cease to be organ and organ?

lol. Well, see, we're Pentecostal, so we do whatever we feel like Today my mom was on keyboard and I was on tinwhistle (I brought my flute too, but didn't end up using it). Though the projector wasn't workng so we didn't do Come, Thou Fount, which wa s the only song i felt I was really good at. Ah well. Oh, also we had banjo at the offertory.

It may have started around the time people began to realize that putting full-fledged organs in fledgling churches was prohibitively expensive.

Yeah, that too. Also we meet in a hotel, so an organ would be kidna tough.

One time I saw (and heard) drums at church. It kind of freaked me out. I'm not used to that.

We have a djembe-player or two play with us most weeks. It's awesome.

[dfernandez77]

Though the projector wasn't workng so we didn't do Come, Thou Fount, which wa s the only song i felt I was really good at.

Hi, welcome.

How does one play Come, Thou Fount on a projector?

[jsluder]

Have a pint (I hear that Slude Dood is buying this time around )

Oi! Ye need to have yer hearin' checked. I said I'd buy next time around. (Lucky fer me, "next time" is never "this time." )

Welcome SpoonMan! Next pint is on me.

[TheSpoonMan]

Though the projector wasn't workng so we didn't do Come, Thou Fount, which wa s the only song i felt I was really good at.

Hi, welcome.

How does one play Come, Thou Fount on a projector?

Oh, LOL, sorry, shoyld have explained. Instead of hymnals, we have a projector up front that everyone reads from, and a comptuer program to get the stuff onscreen (or onpieceofplastic as the cases is- or wahtever those thigns are made of). My mom didn't want to do that one because most people probably wouldn't know the words. I think it's so sad, the decline in hymns and memorizing songs in the church nowadays (and the rest of society, with other songs too), but I could rant a good while about that.

[Walden]

Thanks for the replies, all!

When did the standard lineup cease to be organ and organ?

lol. Well, see, we're Pentecostal, so we do whatever we feel like

I hear ye. I played the harmonica in church on a regular basis.
We had piano, electric organ, guitar, and fiddle. But we didn't have
a projector and did have books.

[SteveShaw]

Oi! Ye need to have yer hearin' checked. I said I'd buy next time around. (Lucky fer me, "next time" is never "this time." )

I've met chaps like you before. You remind me of the little sign on the wall in my local pub "Free beer tomorrow."

[djm]

If the tunes are catchy enough, people will just absorb the lyrics naturally. Da Doo Ron Ron is a good one. I don't know why more churches don't use it.

djm

[The Weekenders]

Hiya Spoons. We have a great bones player, Bonequint, here on the Forum. He lives nearby and comes to our Chiffy whistle parties so I have heard and enjoyed his playing. Fantastic player. Quite a band here....

[Flyingcursor]

Howdy Spoons. We have lots of instruments at church but no organ.
Until I came along they had never had tin whistle, harmonica or hammered dulcimer before. I like to think I broke the mold.

We also have this enormous screen that takes up too much of the platform since nobody seemed to consider we still needed room for the band and singers. Our sax player says it's the result of too much testosterone in the ordering process.

We have drums too. We played "We Will Dance" yesterday. The most awsomest song evar.

There's a Lutheran church here in town that plays jazz every Sunday. I want to get over there and check them out.

[izzarina]

Oi! Ye need to have yer hearin' checked. I said I'd buy next time around. (Lucky fer me, "next time" is never "this time." )

I've met chaps like you before. You remind me of the little sign on the wall in my local pub "Free beer tomorrow."

Slude Dood is the one who came up with that sign. Didn't you know that, Steve?

[dubhlinn]

Hi Spoons,

Welcome to the Pub.

Slan,
D.

[Innocent Bystander]

Hi Spoons!
It's funny how some sites get really bent out of shape if you don't post an introduction, and others couldn't care at all.
They don't insist on intros around here, but well done anyway.

[SteveShaw]

Oi! Ye need to have yer hearin' checked. I said I'd buy next time around. (Lucky fer me, "next time" is never "this time." )

I've met chaps like you before. You remind me of the little sign on the wall in my local pub "Free beer tomorrow."

Slude Dood is the one who came up with that sign. Didn't you know that, Steve?

Really? It's a very old sign...doesn't rule out what you say though I suppose!