Monday, December 14, 2009

My new most embarrassing moment up to this point

Yes, I have topped my "old" most embarrassing moment. If you have forgotten about this, please click here.

It all started when I got called to be my ward organist. You may know I play the piano. Well I don't really play the organ. But the organ has this fun little button called the bass coupler that makes it so you don't have to play the foot pedals. It just takes the bottom note (the bass line) from the bass clef and booms it out as if you played it with your foot. Kinda cool. So I've been playing now for about 2 months. I really enjoy it actually. A couple of problems though-- One, I don't know anything about all those little buttons that change the sound of the organ. You know, the ones where it can sound like bells or horns or other cool stuff generally not used in sacrament meeting. Another problem, ANY note you play, whether it's wrong or right, is very very loud, and if it happens to be a wrong one it's very obvious. Playing a wrong note is not my embarrassing story. I do that frequently. What is my embarrassing story? Well I'm about to tell you. So yesterday at church I was playing a nice, quiet sacrament hymn, "Reverently and Meekly Now" (pay attention to the name, it will make my story more embarrassing). I'm about halfway through the last verse, and suddenly my finger slips a little. No problem, except that, Lo and Behold!, glory Hallelujah!, the 9th ward suddenly gets treated to blasting, blaring trumpets for the last verse of their sacrament hymn. Apparently I bumped some type of pre-set and all these little buttons light up, the organ gets very, very, very loud-- and of course, there's the trumpets heralding us. Of course I couldn't turn it off, I didn't know how I turned it on. So, I finished the song, what else could I do? When I finished, the Bishop turned around with a smile on his face. He asked me later if I was having a seizure! The chorister said I should have seen everyone's faces. The thing is, the closing song was "Far, Far Away on Judea's Plains." Couldn't I have slipped during that one instead? Well I had a pretty good laugh about it. Luckily I don't take myself too seriously most of the time. Let's hope I don't top this one for awhile yet!