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Sabathil Harpsichord For Sale
	Concerto II, Mahogany 2 manual, 4 Choir (one -16 ft, two - 8 ft, one - 4 ft), one Nazard, two Lute Stops, 5 Pedals. Ebony keys, Cherry Sharps with Ivory Covers. Mahogany Music Desk. Case and Sound Board are in excellent condition. New professionally covered bench. 68.25 inches in length with a 3 leg stand. Built by the Sabathil Company of Vancouver BC, Canada in 1966. This harpsichord belonged to my Father, J. Donald DeLong, past Dean of the AGO in Jacksonville, Florida. It was quite impressive when Dad played it! It holds it tune well due to the underneath aluminum frame. Replacement cost $15,000.00. Reduced to sell at $6,500.00. Contact: Greg DeLong Gainesville, Florida greg_FL@bellsouth.net 352-281-5400 cell

	December 6, 2009

Baldwin Model "R" Grand Piano
	Built in 1988, this 5'8" grand piano is in excellent, nearly new condition, and is perfect for church or school, as well as home. Having excellent key action and outstanding tone, it is currently housed in a Sanford showroom, where it can be seen and played by appointment. This is a private sale by owner/AGO Member. $12,500.00.
	407-677-8647. Please leave message and your call will be returned WmJKent847@aol.com
	October 15, 2008

Golden Rules for Ensemble Playing
	Everyone should play the same piece. Stop at every repeat sign and discuss, in detail, whether to take the repeat. The audience will love this a lot! If you play a wrong note, give a nasty look to one of your partners. Keep your fingering chart handy. You can always catch up with the others. Take your time turning pages. The right note, at the wrong time, is a wrong note (and vice versa). If everyone gets lost except you, follow those who get lost. Strive to get the maximum NPS (notes per second). That way you gain the admiration of the incompetent. ** Markings for slurs, dynamics, and ornaments should not be observed. They are only there to embellish the score.	If a passage is difficult, slow down. If it's easy, speed it up. Everything will work itself out in the end. If you are completely lost, stop everyone and say, "I think we should tune." Happy are those who have not perfect pitch, for the kingdom of music is theirs. If the ensemble has to stop because of you, explain in detail why you got lost. Everyone will be very interested. A true interpretation is realized when there remains not one note of the original. When everyone else has finished playing, you should not play any notes you have left. If you have notes left over, please play them on the way home. A wrong note, played timidly, is a wrong note. A wrong note, played with authority, is an interpretation.

– To play in a slow and cheesy manner.

– To play with a divine, beefy tone.

– A sensible, inexpensive brass instrument.

– Unaccompanied knee-slapping.

– A wind instrument that plays only sour notes.

– A musical entrance that is somewhere
in the vicinity of the correct pitch.

Tell Tchaikovsky the News


The new composers' dictionary:
Adagio Frommagio
Angus Dei
A Patella
Frugalhorn
Dill Piccolino
Approximento
	E. T. Thompason, Readers Digest

If Composers were cookies:
Shostakovich: Plain dark chocolate exterior with red-hot cinnamon interior. Vivaldi: Regular sugar cookies shaped like leaves, flowers, snowflakes, and sunshine. Bach: Six different cookies -- somehow woven together into something amazing, intricate, and tasty. Rossini: Basic cookie -- with a whole lot of frosting. Puccini: Gourmet cookie of some sort that you end up losing in the end. Tchaikovsky: Sugar cookie -- with cracked nuts and plum extract. Wagner: Huge, thick cookie -- rich and dark and composed of many little bits. You can't finish the whole thing at once. Mussorgsky: Vodka cookie. Schoenberg: Regular flour, mixed with stuff that normally doesn't go into cookies at all -- like salt -- or carrots. Just something that defies the normal rules of cookie. Weber: Like the Schoenberg cookie -- only smaller. Berg: Like the Schoenberg cookie -- only sweeter. Holst: Regular cookies -- decorated like planets. Sousa: High-fat butter cookies shaped like trumpets and decorated like flags. Schubert: Unfinished cookie recipe. Schumann: Two unrelated types of cookie -- stuck together. Mendelssohn: Very thick and syrupy -- almost like cake. Johann Strauss: Triangular cookie -- almost pure sugar with lots of fancy icing. Dvorak: An old-fashioned recipe -- with classic appeal.


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Electronic Organ For Sale
	1962 Gulbransen 600 series, Rialto II, Model 621 KM. The stops are colored with all kinds of buttons and effects. There is a nice classic tone for church use. It has two manuals and two octaves of flat pedals. It has been used very little and the console is in new condition. Some slight repair may be needed.
	If interested, please contact Larry Pontier, 352-728-4925
	August 2008