Metronome

My teacher has put me back on the metronome for the Hanon exercises. We stopped the metronome because it was making me too frustrated.  I can handle it now.

Grandpa Spells

I am now able to "Grandpa Spells" by Jelly Roll Morton on the organ.  I always used to struggle with it so much.  I guess the technique things in my lessons are paying off.  I was given my first piece of this music by Bill Gage when I was on on the organ crew and he played at the old Stanley Theatre in Newark, NJ.  Which had become The Center For Italian Culture.  It was a nice 3/12 (I think) Wurlitzer.  At the time we had removed the organ from the Fabian Theatre in Paterson and were building chambers in Newark for it.  I am not sure what happened but I have heard that the Fabian organ is now in storage in England somewhere.  It was a beautiful at least 4 manual organ with a floating string division.