by Marilyn Biery | Feb 24, 2020 | Blog: Keyboard to Keyboard (Biery), GIA Resources, Music, Organists
Women’s History Month is celebrated during the month of March in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, corresponding with International Women’s Day (March 8). The goal is to highlight the contributions of women in society through history...
by Marilyn Biery | Feb 12, 2020 | Blog: Keyboard to Keyboard (Biery), GIA Resources, Multicultural Worship, Organists
Since moving to Detroit, I have served in several churches with members that represented many different ethnic backgrounds. It became a much-anticipated tradition for me to highlight Black History month through music as well as other artistic creations, and I looked...
by Marilyn Biery | Jan 24, 2020 | Blog: Keyboard to Keyboard (Biery), Pulling out all the Stops
Now that we have been through the basics of organ registration, we can talk about the more unusual stops on the organ, including the solo stops, the stops that imitate orchestral instruments, the chimes, the harp, the celesta, and the stops that are there for sound...
by Marilyn Biery | Jan 11, 2020 | Blog: Keyboard to Keyboard (Biery), Pulling out all the Stops
How exciting! If you are reading this blog post, that means you are either an organist who already plays the pedals, a newcomer who is interested in playing the pedals, or perhaps you are just interested in the organ! Thank you for reading, and for following this...
by Marilyn Biery | Dec 3, 2019 | Blog: Keyboard to Keyboard (Biery), Christmas, Organists
Christmas just sneaks up on me every year. I’m not very good at planning in advance, and when I do get the gumption to plan things way ahead, by the time my choices come up, I frequently decide to do something else. What seemed perfect in late September just...
by Marilyn Biery | Nov 24, 2019 | Blog: Keyboard to Keyboard (Biery), Pulling out all the Stops
Using Couplers (Sw to Gt and Sw to Ped etc.) and when to do itUsing Couplers and when not to do it What is a coupler, anyway? The simple definition is that a coupler allows the player to link keyboards to each other, and to the pedal, so that all the stops...
