May I Make A Public Apology.

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May I Make A Public Apology.

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organistno1	Jun 12 2009, 06:29 PM Post #1
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 107 Joined: 1-October 07 Member No.: 17204	Hello. Last year I took my grade 8 exam on the new Beckerath Organ at Marlborough College Chapel. It had been installed at the end of 2007. Unfortunately when I took my exam parts of the organ cyiphered on me. I believe I posted a comment explaining my annoyance and possibly over exaggerating things a bit too much. Well. Through the powers of the internet, The chapel director of music who let me use the organ (despite the fact that I am not a student at the college) found the post. He was not happy. He wants my organ tutors e-mail or address to contact him. I understand that at the time, the organ not working seemed like a bad thing. However, I dismissed it claiming that there are more important things to worry about. Unfortunately I had already posted the comment and it never occured to me to delete it. I would like to publicly apologise to anyone who may have been offended by the post. I over exaggerated things beyond what they where. The organ is one of the best organ around and the builder is reputable. I also understand that has the organ is new, it takes time to settle in and problems can occur. I will be e-mailing the director of music to apologise but, has I posted the comment on here, I thought I'd post this reply here as well. Thank you for your support in this matter

petrat	Jun 12 2009, 09:54 PM Post #2
Unregistered	I have just read that thread and really cannot see anything there for you to apologise for. If it happened, it happened! Don't worry any more about it.

Swell Box	Jun 12 2009, 10:14 PM Post #3
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 2376 Joined: 27-January 09 From: The Land of Harrison & Harrison Member No.: 53694	Oh dear! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blush.gif) We like think that we remain anonymous on internet forums, and so can speak freely. But once in a while our sins find us out! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) I only hope for your sake, and for the sake of the wider organ playing community, that your apology is accepted. Forum members have discussed the difficulties of finding organs to practice on on over the past few weeks, and open criticism of any instrument, offered willingly, does little to improve the situation. Criticisms of individuals, organisations or specific instruments can be especially dangerous, so I hope this matter, and your open apology will serve as a reminder to all of us that 'we are not alone on the internet! ' Swell Box

mel2	Jun 12 2009, 11:28 PM Post #4
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 2445 Joined: 15-May 06 Member No.: 6928	Oops. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) Hope this blows over soon. I can understand how frustrated you must have been for the thing to choose that occasion to misbehave, and this will have coloured your remarks. This shows it obviously happens with the best instruments as well as the old bags of spanners. My sympathies.

Solari	Jun 13 2009, 01:25 AM Post #5
Unregistered	I'm at a bit of a loss as to why someone would take a throwaway comment on the internet so seriously? Fair play for apologising but it's understandable if you were a bit miffed at the time. We all get bouts of bad luck?

Czerny	Jun 13 2009, 07:50 AM Post #6
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 4061 Joined: 7-December 07 Member No.: 21097	I've just read the original post and, assuming it hasn't been edited retrospectively, I fail to see what all the fuss is about. So the organ cyphered during an important exam, you were - understandably - unsettled by this and consequently wrote a post in which you said that it had cyphered - is that a terrible condemnation of the organ builder? I don't know, but, unless you made the whole thing up, your report of the experience seems a fairly objective description of events. It's probably not a direct parallel, but it seems to me a bit like a reed maker getting uppity if somebody complained that one of their reeds squeaked.

LizzieT	Jun 13 2009, 11:40 AM Post #7
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 773 Joined: 7-March 06 Member No.: 6386	QUOTE(Swell Box @ Jun 12 2009, 11:14 PM) Criticisms of individuals, organisations or specific instruments can be especially dangerous, so I hope this matter, and your open apology will serve as a reminder to all of us that 'we are not alone on the internet! ' Swell Box Absolutely. Whether or not the comments were strictly accurate, they can be googled up all over the world for many individuals to see and probably for many years to come! However, Organisto, you can edit your original post. If it is quoted further down the thread (I didn't personally check), I imagine the Mods would be pretty sympathetic in the circumstances if you contacted them and asked for those quotes to be removed, or even for the whole thread to be deleted.

anacrusis	Jun 13 2009, 12:46 PM Post #8
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 5229 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Edinburgh, Scotland Member No.: 4852	Isn't this all just a bit of a storm in a teacup, really? Sounds to me as if you're being bullied by the establishment a bit... even if someone does a search and finds your comments, as long as there aren't hundreds of other negative comments out there, it will not mean so very much in the scheme of things...and if there are hundreds of others, surely they'd be needing to do something about it anyway?

Holz Gedeckt	Jun 13 2009, 12:55 PM Post #9
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 3656 Joined: 29-May 07 Member No.: 11674	I suspect that the problem may be that, as the OP said, matters were somewhat exaggerated. All new organs are prone to ciphering, by the way. It takes a while for them to 'settle down'.

mwl1	Jun 13 2009, 04:57 PM Post #10
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 4893 Joined: 23-October 05 From: North Yorkshire Member No.: 5068	Consider it not so deeply! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) The organ forum seems to be spied on by a few people of high authority...

petrat	Jun 13 2009, 05:21 PM Post #11
Unregistered	QUOTE(mwl1 @ Jun 13 2009, 05:57 PM) The organ forum seems to be spied on by a few people of high authority... Yes, it does! BOOOOOOOO!

mwl1	Jun 13 2009, 05:33 PM Post #12
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 4893 Joined: 23-October 05 From: North Yorkshire Member No.: 5068	QUOTE(petrat @ Jun 13 2009, 06:21 PM) QUOTE(mwl1 @ Jun 13 2009, 05:57 PM) The organ forum seems to be spied on by a few people of high authority... Yes, it does! BOOOOOOOO! I saw you a mile off! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

petrat	Jun 13 2009, 05:41 PM Post #13
Unregistered	(IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

barry-clari	Jun 13 2009, 07:00 PM Post #14
Maestro Group: Members Posts: 40564 Joined: 10-January 06 From: South East London Member No.: 5804	Sorry to go off topic : but I know nothing about organs, when an organ cyphers, what does that mean? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif) ...

Holz Gedeckt	Jun 13 2009, 07:02 PM Post #15
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 3656 Joined: 29-May 07 Member No.: 11674	QUOTE(barry-clari @ Jun 13 2009, 08:00 PM) Sorry to go off topic : but I know nothing about organs, when an organ cyphers, what does that mean? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif) ... When an organ ciphers, it means that a note is sounding which isn't wanted.

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