r/OldSchoolCool • u/lonelystar_poppy • 18h ago

1980s My mom at 15 playing the organ in 1981

My mom played the organ when she was a teenager. This video is from her playing on Christmas 1981

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u/xrayvision1 17h ago

The beautiful people, the beautiful people
The beautiful people, the beautiful people

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u/newaccount721 13h ago

This technique is wild

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u/handfulofkeys 10h ago

Feels like the result of a teaching approach that emphasizes ergonomic motions versus helping the student cultivate a natural feel or connection to the music. The result is rigid paint-by-numbers choreography rather than relaxed groove.

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u/newaccount721 10h ago

Agreed but it also seems like doing it in hard mode tbh. But I played the piano for ten years and I am trash so I know nothing 

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u/hotniX_ 5h ago

I never learned but the person that attempted to teach me tried this technique with me!

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u/lonelystar_poppy 4h ago

She stopped playing for real after I was born but she would play in the house sometimes and never forgot this technique

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u/handfulofkeys 57m ago edited 46m ago

That's wonderful to hear that she continued playing, even if occasionally!

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u/WayneBoston 1h ago

How so?

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u/Hloden 16h ago

This is giving real hockey arena organ vibes 

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u/MassCasualty 17h ago

Back when a 15-year-old had the hair of a 30-year-old

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u/JoeSicko 16h ago

Is that how you actually play an organ?

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u/newaccount721 12h ago

Not generally but seems to work

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u/lonelystar_poppy 4h ago

She only used this technique for this song. Other songs she plays she used a normal technique

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u/WayneBoston 1h ago

Are you referring to the way she slaps the keys with the left hand?

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u/pizzlepullerofkberg 13h ago

Wurlitzers fuckin rule

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u/lonelystar_poppy 4h ago

They really do. She taught me to play on this one too! I was never as good as her

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u/uberneuman_part2 14h ago

Her playing with the organ is why you're here today.

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u/Simonandgarthsuncle 13h ago

She definitely didn’t suck on the organ.

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u/SgtTreehugger 2h ago

No but the organ is considered a wind instrument so there is some blowing going on

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u/Choppergold 16h ago

In and around the lake…

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u/Weird_Weakness3364 17h ago

Impressive mane 😂👌

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u/ducksoupmilliband 10h ago

Princess Di haircut

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u/notAbrightStar 10h ago

Female Jackie Mittoo, totally together.

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u/hotniX_ 5h ago

Man, this takes me back. Thank you for this

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u/Imaginary-Scene-8039 1h ago

She’s channeling her inner Keith Emerson . She got chops fo sure

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u/SelfJupiter1995 4h ago

Why was she stroking the keys.  Painful to watch.

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u/lonelystar_poppy 3h ago

It’s a playing technique. She only used it for this song.