Hi, James!  Recently you wrote in a message to Richard Webb:

JB>  I'm addressing this to you Richard, because I pick on
JB>  Ardith too much. It applies equally.


          I always wanted a little brother & I understand teasing Sis goes
with the territory, but I'm glad to see you & Richard exchanging messages.  :-)



AH>  Chords       -- something organists play with one finger

RW>  Depends on the organ I guess, but never was able to do that
RW>  with a Hammond b-3 (and glad that wasn't available there.)

AH>  I imagine you know more about such things than I do!  The
AH>  definitions were meant to be taken with a grain of salt,
AH>  however, and this was the first in a group of three
AH>  which IMHO made a rather nice parallelism... [chuckle].

JB>  MOD: Chords  -- something accordionists play with one finger


          Yes, that would work.  But Richard also brought up an important
point which I almost missed until I'd made some further enquiries.  Serious
musicians who do keyboards professionally are in a very different category
from the "play by numbers" crowd.  They tend to use the Hammond B3 whereas
Grandma Potts would use a Hammond "S" series chord organ or something
similar... i.e. probably what the majority of non-musicians think of as an
"organ" nowadays.

          A chord organ can produce a limited repertoire of chords at the
touch of a button in much the same way as the electronic keyboard which Nora
uses for music therapy can produce a few artificial "boom-chick-chick"
percussion sounds on demand.  In this household there is no demand.  It's more
beneficial for her & more satisfying for us if she uses her left hand as best
she can right now... and remains motivated to improve.  AFAIC folks like you &
Richard needn't worry about being replaced by electronic substitutes, but many
people seem to believe any fool can play keyboards or sing or play drums or
whatever.  I'm inclined to think the author of these jokes is taking a sly dig
at wannabe musicians.  :-))



JB>  I've mentioned here earlier to Ardith, that when I was a wee
JB>  lad I saw these guitar players spend more time tuning their
JB>  instruments than playing the ruddy songs. "Nope, I just want
JB>  to play!" Then, I counted the lugs on my snare drum


          In any case, I agree that it's worth repeating... [chuckle].




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