5: When Did You Last Hear a Pipe Organ?

Yes, when? Or a Hammond organ for that matter.

My earliest was at Kampong Kapor Methodist Church when I attended a Sunday School Christmas Service there, having gone there with my grandmother in a trishaw! The pipe organ was really something to behold. I was then 9 years old.

Then as a teenager, when I attended morning service at Wesley Methodist Church, the pipe organ reigned supreme.

The Hammond organ came much later, in the late 50s, when I attended Sunday School at Bethesda Katong.

So it's been years when we last heard organ music at Pentecost Methodist Church. Nowadays we are treated to all kinds of instruments - the drums, electric guitars, maracas, etc.

But thank God, there's the Internet, and Search Engines and YouTube!

And so I looked for a piece of music to accompany Hymn 16 of Sha'ir Puji-pujian chosen by Abang Johnny for us to sing at the TRAC Penyabaran Injil come Sep 26.
I found a few, but the one I liked best was by Lance playing "We're Marching to Zion". With it, I created a practice video for the occasion.

Here it is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlEKrxlBoMM, with lyrics and the Pipe Organ 8 music.

Come, sing along with it. Re-live the days of the Peranakan Service under Rev Chew Hock Hin at Geylang Straits Chinese Methodist Church at Aljuneid Road, the fore-runner of PMC Pasir Ris.