MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

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kenisyes

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Abiding said:
When they put the piano in place of the harpsachord......thats when it went downwhill:(
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Do you think that was the cause? Also, maybe we have climbed a new hill instead, there are many ways to use music to celebrate the presence of God and to worship.
 
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violakat

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kenisyes said:
Do you think that was the cause? Also, maybe we have climbed a new hill instead, there are many ways to use music to celebrate the presence of God and to worship.
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Not knowing Abiding's thoughts on this so I'm just guessing at what he might have meant.

Could it be that because the organ was not as portable as a piano (is a piano ever really that portable), or as easy to play as the piano (after all the piano only requires one keyboard and two maybe three pedals to learn, while the traditional organs of that day was two keyboards and quite a few foot pedals.) As a result more and more people were learning the piano, which brings more and more secular music into the arena. Just theorizing.
 
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kenisyes

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Other theories would include that the piano was a newcomer, and the older generation did not like the young generation's music. Or the piano was too rhythmic, detracted from the "flow" of the ancient chant that was still being used. Or that something else happened at the same time. It is standard musical history that this is the same time as music changed from being paid for by the church to being paid for by secular welathy patrons. Or that this was the time of revivals (like Methodism); many people consider revivals inherently wrong, as drawing too many insincere people.
 
JaumeJ

JaumeJ

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I love the Psalms on this subject. Praise Him with a loud noise....................and

Psa 150:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
Psa 150:2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.
Psa 150:3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
Psa 150:4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
Psa 150:5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
Psa 150:6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.
 
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kenisyes

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There are some people working on reconstructing the original melodies for this. Sung in Hebrew, with the melody, it works as a round. Sounds almost like the whole band, the way the Hebrew sounds overlap.
 
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