For Christmas break, I’m back in Kansas with my parents.  This last Sunday, I decided to check out the local Episcopal church.  I started attending an Episcopal church after college, so I was curious what the one in my hometown was like. Grace Episcopal turned out to be a great little church, and better yet, they’ve got an awesome pipe organ! It’s a little Gabriel Kney tracker organ (entirely mechanical) built in 1989 in Canada. I talked with the rector after the service, and he said I could come by during the week and practice on it if I wanted, so guess where I’ve been the last three afternoons. :-)

It has only 13 stops, but it’s tons of fun to play. It’s small, so I was right next to the pipes and immersed in their sound when playing. And, it’s a tracker organ, so I could literally feel the levers opening the pipes for every note I played.

I’m still trying to figure out a reasonable way to record pipe organ music, so I don’t have any music to post yet, but I’ll get that figured out soon. Next week, it’s back to the much larger pipe organ at St. Tim’s!

More pipe organ pictures