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2006-09-28, 03:42

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Originally Posted by Wrao View Post
But imagine this, a young musician, soaking up anything with a staff and some noteheads, getting excited at the prospect of singing and playing music at this new and foreign thing called 'church', only to have the result of all the psalms and hymns be a bunch of droning, out of pitch, "catch-up" rhythm nonsense.. well, it was awful is the point.
The funny thing is that confirmation class is usually done around the ages of 12-15, where most usually go through pubertal voice change, so the songs sound even worse than they normally would.

(I, too, did a fair bit of music at the time. Basically my entire weekly schedule was filled with school in the mornings and musical classes for violin and piano in the evenings, including attending several orchestras.)
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