[ArrogantBustard]

My grandparents' parish used an accordian for a while.

I'll have to tell our choir director about that; I'm sure she'll be amused. I've not offered my services, because somehow banjo pickin' at Mass just seems wrong. "Our Communion Meditation today will be 'Foggy Mountain Breakdown'. It's not in your misalette." I certainly agree, regarding the reasonably wealthy, established parishes. What really annoys me is wealthy, established parishes which do have an organ (and a really nice pipe organ, at that) and refuse to use it.

[ninenot]

Oh, I don't know.

Find a good guitarist and do the duo from "Deliverance."

Deliverance has religious connotations, doesn't it??

[Desdemona]

What really annoys me is wealthy, established parishes which do have an organ (and a really nice pipe organ, at that) and refuse to use it.

Absolutely. I don't understand the prejudice against the organ so many Catholics seem to have. But, they also are the ones who are just pre-baby boom and baby-boom era. I'm just enough younger that whatever happened to poison the well, so to speak, was over before my musical development started. But then, of course, this is the gang who considers musical theater in high school adequate training to be experts in music.

[ThomasMore]

I wonder if in the advent of the invention of the organ, they were questioning the validity of that instrument? I've heard "Bread of Life" by Roc played on the organ by a very talented musician, and no matter how you cut it, it was still the heretical junk I heard played on the guitar.

On the other hand, I heard a classical guitar rendition of "Jesus, My Lord, My God, My All" that was so reverent and splendid it brought tears to my eyes.