Greg meets a lot of really nice people with his job. Recently he met with a couple that invited us back to their house for an FHE. I have to admit that I thought it was a little strange that they invited a complete stranger and his family to their house but it was actually very cool! This man has put a huge organ in his home with a lot of pipes (1700) and he played it for us. It was actually very fun and educational. All of the pipes are used and collected from old churches, some even came from the tabernacle. He could make the sounds of almost any instrument you can think of. He even let the kids play some songs, the kids absolutely LOVED it!! In fact, Katie said it was the best FHE ever!! I guess we need to find more fun things to do :)
One entire room holds the organ and some of the pipes. I think it must have been a family room at one time.
The dining room was converted into a room that houses the rest of the pipes. He has even built baffles between to the two rooms so he can control the amount of sound. He took the girls back in the room with the pipes and let them blow into some of them. They LOVED it!
This picture shows the baffles and that is Katie and Merv in the room with the pipes.
6 comments:
way cool!
That is quite the hobby he has! Sounds very fun for the kiddies =)
Crazy random question, but is his last name Brown?
Char, yes it is :) do you know them?
Best house to grow up in EVER!!! I'm Merv and Karen's daughter... Friend of Char...
We have met so many wonderful people because of that pipe organ! So glad you enjoyed it! (and thanks for not thinking I'm too creepy for blog-stalking... but it was Char's fault... *winks*)
What a small world!!! :)
So Sad we missed it. I've only been to see Merv's organ once and we were going to crash the FHE that night. :-)
We'll have to do it again some other time.
Merv and Karen rock!
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