Peter Jones: The first and most important thing to arrange before even starting your organ practice is ... a practice organ! And if you can have one at home, how much better it will be for your progress. Home practice organs are not cheap, but you only buy them once, unlike a new car (which costs about the same) and they don't deteriorate over your lifetime. If you are serious about learning to play the organ, you must buy a home practice-organ as soon as possible, and it must be one with PIPES and not some awful simulator. This small organ was built for a client about 20 years ago. The cost has been forgotten long ago, but the benefit to his playing is on-going. (And it's so much warmer in the winter, when you can just step into the next room to continue your playing!) Would you expect a violinist or a pianist to make much progress, if their instrument was kept in another building miles away? Face up to the fact that you need a practice-organ more than the next new car, more than the next holiday, more than the expensive wedding, and DO something about it.
When I wrote recently about sight-reading Intonation Primi Toni by Andrea Gabrieli, I've received a request to create an example of a few lines of music with Italian Paired Fingering on the score for beginners. In order to help such organists, I thought I would share with you today my version of this Intonation with fingering. I hope your fingers and your patience last until the end of the page...
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