...hopefully very well! as they are very forgiving folk at Chapel!
Let me explain -
We have no organist for this coming Sunday as she is poorly. So do we sing unaccompanied?
Our organist is an excellent singer as well who can get us all singing - I am no good - I can only follow.
We do have electricity and a loop system, but no mixing desk or computer and projector. Think back 30 or 40 years and that's us!
And then I had a bright idea. I do have an ipod which has all my favourite CDs on it, including many hymns. So I abandoned all the hymns I had chosen for Sunday as none of them were on the ipod and chose new hymns that were sung relatively slowly, and with a long lead I've manage to get the hymns to come through the loudspeakers.
I just hope the Chapel folk won't mind singing along with an ipod!
Our PA team have produced CDs of the congregation singing various favourite hymns, [old and new] and when we do services at the Care Homes, we play these and the residents sing along. It works really well.
ReplyDeleteHope your system equally successful [contact us if you want to know more about the the CDs or the techie side of things!]
blessings x
Sounds good to me and I'm sure people will appreciate both the effort you've gone to and their wonderful organist all the more.
ReplyDeleteI have occasionally services with no singing deliberately so that we can learn to worship in other ways - which relieves the pressure for everyone if there are days without musicians.
Enjoy!
Just wondering... how'd it go?
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