All in the Life of a Church Pianist
Generally on Sunday nights…Pastor has the church sing two choruses or hymns from the hymnal right before his sermon. (We don’t have a special every Sunday night).
This particular Sunday night he started talking about something else and so I thought maybe he wasn’t going to do the extra songs.
So…I began to prep my orchestra for a last minute offertory because the person lined up for offertory wasn’t able to play. (I had forgotten to check my texts or I would have seen the offertory cancellation. I had told the person they could just text me yes or no and I would fill-in if needed)
The orchestra sits right beside me so it was easy to be discreet.
All of a sudden it grew quiet…I looked up to see all eyes looking my way. “Uh oh,” I humbly replied. “What song?”
I had missed hearing Pastor call out the song for the church to sing and they were waiting on an introduction.
Needless to say, everyone laughed! How embarrassing! My husband who does the sound…thought it was hilarious!
He later told me, “Oh well…maybe everyone needed a good laugh!”
I’ll try to do better! 😉 I’m sure other church pianists have humorous stories to tell! Please feel free to share your stories below!
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