Highs and lows
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kayreMy music space at church is oddly shaped, and I have the delightful problem of having too many choristers for the space. Happily, everything is moveable except the organ pipes (I have even moved the organ console since arriving). This morning I had two young pianists playing a duet, and my working arrangement this spring would have had them with their backs to the congregation, sitting on bar stools to play! So I moved my Kawai keyboard, and turned the choir 90 degrees to face it.
One consideration is always where to put Diana, who is in a wheelchair. Choir is up on a 6 inch platform, but she's very nice about having to be shifted up there, thank goodness. I made sure I left her a good big section of platform, as even her tiny chair takes a surprising amount of space. But it didn't occur to me OR her that I had moved her to where there was a drop from the platform behind her-- nearly 3 feet behind here, but still. And she doesn't let people put on her wheelchair brakes because she is unable to release them and it makes her helpless to adjust her position.
So, yes, during the gap between choir rehearsal and worship, when nearly everyone had left the platform, she rolled backwards off the platform and tipped over. It was a very bad fall and she was shocky, so we called 911; in the end she is fine, and philosophical about the whole thing, and even stayed for worship (15 minutes late) and sang. But it was terrifying, and I feel awful about my part in it.
On the good side-- after all that distraction, when worship finally started, my piano students were absolutely brilliant, note perfect! They revived the mood of the congregation, and I could not be more proud.
One consideration is always where to put Diana, who is in a wheelchair. Choir is up on a 6 inch platform, but she's very nice about having to be shifted up there, thank goodness. I made sure I left her a good big section of platform, as even her tiny chair takes a surprising amount of space. But it didn't occur to me OR her that I had moved her to where there was a drop from the platform behind her-- nearly 3 feet behind here, but still. And she doesn't let people put on her wheelchair brakes because she is unable to release them and it makes her helpless to adjust her position.
So, yes, during the gap between choir rehearsal and worship, when nearly everyone had left the platform, she rolled backwards off the platform and tipped over. It was a very bad fall and she was shocky, so we called 911; in the end she is fine, and philosophical about the whole thing, and even stayed for worship (15 minutes late) and sang. But it was terrifying, and I feel awful about my part in it.
On the good side-- after all that distraction, when worship finally started, my piano students were absolutely brilliant, note perfect! They revived the mood of the congregation, and I could not be more proud.
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