Friday Night Organ–Back to Basics

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

Well we’ve had some fun in the past few weeks but now its time to get back to basics—that is exclusively organ music composed prior to 1760.

In honor of our brother Greg Honda tonight we will feature English composers. First up to bat is Jeremiah Clarke. Clarke was born around 1673. Clarke was one of the pupils of John Blow at St Paul’s Cathedral and a chorister in 1685 at the Chapel Royal. Between 1692 and 1695 he was an organist at Winchester College, then between 1699 and 1704 he was an organist at St Paul’s Cathedral. He later became an organist and ‘Gentleman extraordinary’ at the Chapel Royal. And here is a MGTOW Connection: Clarke died in 1707 of a big fat blue pill: “A violent and hopeless passion for a very beautiful lady of a rank superior to his own” caused Clarke to commit suicide. Apparently, he fell madly in love with one of his female students, a young, beautiful woman, of much higher social rank than he. But the woman was out of his league in every way, and he couldn’t bear it. It is not known if the woman knew of his love and spurned him, or the love was reciprocated but the difference in their stations would not permit their union, or perhaps, if he was too shy to ever face her.[12] Because of this, he made a decision to take his own life.

Today, Clarke is best remembered for a popular keyboard piece: the Prince of Denmark’s March, which is commonly called the Trumpet Voluntary, written in about 1700.

The famous Trumpet Tune in D (incorrectly attributed to Henry Purcell) was taken from the semi-opera The Island Princess, which was a joint musical production of Clarke and Daniel Purcell (Henry Purcell’s younger brother)

Next up we have John Stanley and his excellent/familiar trumpet tune played on the Mighty Ruffatti. Charles John Stanley (January 1712- May 1786) was an English composer and organist. OK he is a little out of the time frame BUT we’ll let it slide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stanley_(composer)

[Greg HondaParticipant 6406]

Back to the classics!

Are we zooming this weekend Pete?

Jetlag comes and goes so I might be up, or might crash. Be good to talk again.

It's Time to get Wise

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

Greg! you life saving son of a bitch! tonight’s offering is in honor of you my brother! I hope so as far as the zoom is concerned but I haven’t heard anything yet! Will let you know the moment I do!

BTW the generator was working great until yesterday. For some reason it just stopped and I couldn’t get it started again. Fortunately the power came on about 10 minutes later BUT I’m still working on trying to figure out what happened. The only thing I know for sure is that it looked like gas was leaking out of the air intake manifold. So it was either getting too much or too little. I found It would start if I took the air filter off and opened the choke completely. Advice?

[Greg HondaParticipant 6406]

Take off the carb. Check that the float is moving free and that the float needle is moving also. Then take out the pin of the float and let the needle drop out. Give it a blow. There is probably some piece of dirt stopping the needle from sealing when it’s pushed up. Put a filter in the fuel line and change the gas. You should be good to go.

It's Time to get Wise

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

Not sure how to do all of that…how do I check the float/needle? BTW it began acting up just after I added brand new gas. It began to rev then slow and then rev then slow and finally quit. But like I said when I took off the air filter I got it started again.

I think I understand. The float closes off the flow so if I’m getting gas running out the front the float is sticking…AH SO!

[Greg HondaParticipant 6406]

This video gives the basic info from 2.58 minutes onward.

If you have the model number there may be a specific video for you generator.

It's Time to get Wise

[GregB0Participant]

So still no accordian music … oh well, you tube is always an option.

Thanks for posting and welcome back.

​"​My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.​" - Clarence Buddinton Kelland

[GregB0Participant]

Greg Honda wrote:

This video gives the basic info from 2.58 minutes onward.

And Pete has tools to use and a Generator that needs work. Ask him about the fuel being lean ………

​"​My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.​" - Clarence Buddinton Kelland

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