Week 9 10/21/11: I met Melissa at the church for her organ/piano lesson. She is wanting to learn how to play the organ now too. She played a piece that she started working on at home on her piano. She did amazingly well at playing it on the organ and adding the foot pedals. I am now thinking that it is hard to teach an old dog new tricks. I have been practicing for weeks now and I am not as proficient with the pedals as she was on her first try. Hmmmmmm. Hopefully this humiliation is making me a much more understanding teacher when I try to teach someone how to do fractions and they just don't get it. I'll be able to remember back to the organ footpedals and just sigh.
We practiced our duet for 30 minutes. It sounds great together for if one of us makes a mistake it is not noticed because the other instrument is carrying the sound.
10/23/11: There are not any You Tube videos on the stops of an organ. I am surprised. I shall have to go to the library. Hey, we have a library at school. I'll checkit out!
10/23/11: My son Jens comes home in less than two weeks!! He comes home from two years in Chile on Nov. 4, Friday. We present our Learn Something New project on Monday the 7th.
