Purely anecdotal ...

the lighter sides ...

There is much humour surrounding the more serious side of living with organs as your main focus in life - a survival instinct at work, perhaps needed when things go wrong? Under this category, first and foremost your attention is drawn to "Organ-isms", collated in New Zealand by Jenny Setchell in 2008 (Zenith Publishing Group Ltd. ISBN 978-0-473-14286-5). A German translation is in progress.

At a parish dinner in Laufen in mid-2010 a Swiss poem - originally by Josef Suter in D'r Alphorner - was quoted. This was much to the amusement of all gathered, since it relates how the church seems to pray for everybody except their organists. David Rumsey, who was present and the friendly target of much laughter on that occasion, struck back with the appended verse. (German language)

"Gebet für .." (mit Anhang ...) (PDF)