Hi, James!  Recently you wrote in a message to Richard Webb:   
      
   JB>  I'm addressing this to you Richard, because I pick on   
   JB>  Ardith too much. It applies equally.   
      
      
             I always wanted a little brother & I understand teasing Sis goes   
   with the territory, but I'm glad to see you & Richard exchanging messages.  :-)   
      
      
      
   AH>  Chords       -- something organists play with one finger   
      
   RW>  Depends on the organ I guess, but never was able to do that   
   RW>  with a Hammond b-3 (and glad that wasn't available there.)   
      
   AH>  I imagine you know more about such things than I do!  The   
   AH>  definitions were meant to be taken with a grain of salt,   
   AH>  however, and this was the first in a group of three   
   AH>  which IMHO made a rather nice parallelism... [chuckle].   
      
   JB>  MOD: Chords  -- something accordionists play with one finger   
      
      
             Yes, that would work.  But Richard also brought up an important   
   point which I almost missed until I'd made some further enquiries.  Serious   
   musicians who do keyboards professionally are in a very different category   
   from the "play by numbers" crowd.  They tend to use the Hammond B3 whereas   
   Grandma Potts would use a Hammond "S" series chord organ or something   
   similar... i.e. probably what the majority of non-musicians think of as an   
   "organ" nowadays.   
      
             A chord organ can produce a limited repertoire of chords at the   
   touch of a button in much the same way as the electronic keyboard which Nora   
   uses for music therapy can produce a few artificial "boom-chick-chick"   
   percussion sounds on demand.  In this household there is no demand.  It's more   
   beneficial for her & more satisfying for us if she uses her left hand as best   
   she can right now... and remains motivated to improve.  AFAIC folks like you &   
   Richard needn't worry about being replaced by electronic substitutes, but many   
   people seem to believe any fool can play keyboards or sing or play drums or   
   whatever.  I'm inclined to think the author of these jokes is taking a sly dig   
   at wannabe musicians.  :-))   
      
      
      
   JB>  I've mentioned here earlier to Ardith, that when I was a wee   
   JB>  lad I saw these guitar players spend more time tuning their   
   JB>  instruments than playing the ruddy songs. "Nope, I just want   
   JB>  to play!" Then, I counted the lugs on my snare drum   
      
      
             In any case, I agree that it's worth repeating... [chuckle].   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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