Currently\nthere are 3 of us who take turns playing the piano during meeting for worship:\nDot Hinshaw, Sue Wood, and Nancy Marstaller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dot started\ntaking lessons when she was 6 years old. She could play by ear and found it\nharder to learn to read music. When she was taking lessons, her teachers would\nremind her to play the notes on the page! She practices all the hymns in our books,\nconcentrating on those that might be called for in the current season. She didn\u2019t\nplay for worship services until coming to Durham. We\u2019re lucky to have her with\nher lively playing style, especially as she can transpose a piece to make it\neasier to sing, and add chords and flourishes to pieces with only the melody\nwritten down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sue also\nstarted taking lessons as a young girl. She fell in love with the organ and\nstarted playing for churches when she was in her teens. She doesn\u2019t practice\nparticular hymns for meeting, and likes to work on classical pieces at home. We\nare fortunate to have her accompany the choir too; she plays with such feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both Dot\nand Sue choose pieces to play during the offering based on what\u2019s said or\narisen in worship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also\nstarted taking piano lessons at an early age. I\u2019m glad sight-reading was one of\nthe skills the teacher stressed. When I first started playing at Durham\nMeeting, mostly filling in for Mary Curtis or another pianist, the pastor\npicked the hymns, and I chose a piece with the same theme for the offering. Now,\nof course, we don\u2019t know what will be called for. It may be a piece we really\ndon\u2019t know, and I\u2019m grateful no one points out all my mistakes! I practice a\nfew pieces with the offering in mind, and may play one of them or another that\nseems called for by worship. I miss playing organ\/piano duets with my mom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We\u2019d love\nto have others play, for the hymns or for the offering. Speak to any of us if\nyou are interested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Currently there are 3 of us who take turns playing the piano during meeting for worship: Dot Hinshaw, Sue Wood, and Nancy Marstaller. Dot started taking lessons when she was 6 years old. She could play by ear … Continue reading