I have actually seen more than one piano for sale in a thrift store for under $200 in the last month, so... as you say, it's just a matter of having someone to help load/unload, and then tune the thing. I'm also keeping an eye out for the electric piano type keyboards-- they seem good enough, as a starter thing, and don't take up as much space. He's currently playing violin, and doing reasonably well, so no rush.
I didn't even go to one of the rock and roll churches--- that'd be hard to stomach. But I remember being a little kid and my favorite parts of both mass and the protestant services were the bits where the whole congregation would recite the creed or the responses together: a great rumble of sound that you could almost float on. Neither church had a choir worth mentioning, so I can see how the dumb-ification of the music happened--- I mean, could "Shine, Jesus, Shine" (hork hork hork! Sorry, hairball) ever have gained a foothold in a congregation where the majority of people were still even halfway musically literate? No. Anything you can imagine as a feature of a "KIDZ BOP 27" album, sung by a slurry of high-pitched, overproduced children's voices, to a catchy beat... does not belong in church.
(grump grump grump)
Perfect acoustics for an auditorium are, of course, different from church acoustics-- in an auditorium it's best to avoid echoes and things-- you want sound projected, but not much reflected. There, you'd want the lapse time (how long the sound bounces around the walls and ceilings) to be pretty short. In a cathedral or basilica, it can be pretty long-- but it's an instrument to be played! A good chant harmonizes with its own echoes.
I remember hearing an interview once with a flautist who had made a recording in the Taj Mahal, which has a lapse time of something like *three minutes*, which is insane. It was a delightful thing to listen to. I think it was this guy:
Not too long ago, some bright Orthodox musician managed to get permission to record the echoes inside Hagia Sophia-- it was complicated, as singing is not permitted there. Too politically loaded. They set up several microphones, and recorded a baloon popping. From that they did a sort of digital acoustic reconstruction and made a few Byzantine chant recordings of what it should sound like, if you could chant in Hagia Sophia. They're pretty cool, too:
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Re: Christian Rock
Date: 2022-09-22 07:36 pm (UTC)I didn't even go to one of the rock and roll churches--- that'd be hard to stomach. But I remember being a little kid and my favorite parts of both mass and the protestant services were the bits where the whole congregation would recite the creed or the responses together: a great rumble of sound that you could almost float on. Neither church had a choir worth mentioning, so I can see how the dumb-ification of the music happened--- I mean, could "Shine, Jesus, Shine" (hork hork hork! Sorry, hairball) ever have gained a foothold in a congregation where the majority of people were still even halfway musically literate? No. Anything you can imagine as a feature of a "KIDZ BOP 27" album, sung by a slurry of high-pitched, overproduced children's voices, to a catchy beat... does not belong in church.
(grump grump grump)
Perfect acoustics for an auditorium are, of course, different from church acoustics-- in an auditorium it's best to avoid echoes and things-- you want sound projected, but not much reflected. There, you'd want the lapse time (how long the sound bounces around the walls and ceilings) to be pretty short. In a cathedral or basilica, it can be pretty long-- but it's an instrument to be played! A good chant harmonizes with its own echoes.
I remember hearing an interview once with a flautist who had made a recording in the Taj Mahal, which has a lapse time of something like *three minutes*, which is insane. It was a delightful thing to listen to. I think it was this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GXcr_Me7yI
Not too long ago, some bright Orthodox musician managed to get permission to record the echoes inside Hagia Sophia-- it was complicated, as singing is not permitted there. Too politically loaded. They set up several microphones, and recorded a baloon popping. From that they did a sort of digital acoustic reconstruction and made a few Byzantine chant recordings of what it should sound like, if you could chant in Hagia Sophia. They're pretty cool, too:
https://www.openculture.com/2020/03/hear-the-sound-of-the-hagia-sophia-recreated-in-authentic-byzantine-chant.html