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I posted in here back in January that I'm starting to learn the organ, but my teacher and I have both dragged our heels about meeting at the church. The music director said last week there is new interest in hearing the organ for hymns, and about hiring someone to come in--hang on!! I booked my teacher the next day lol.

We spent most of the hour just getting a lay of the land. As he said, there is a LOT of organ here, it's a masterpiece. But not without a few problems of course.

But at least I can start now instead of being overwhelmed. It was years ago now but my time self learning the B3 organ for a Black Gospel-style church is really coming back as I take this on.

Teacher is starting me on Peeters' Little Organ Book, and I plan to learn a couple from Bach's Little Prelude and Fugue book this year. Here we go!

EDIT: Should be solved, thanks folks! I never knew the gasket existed or needed to be replaced. I'll update if that doesn't work but given the symptoms that should fix it.

Well this is troubling. I had this happen yesterday and this morning while pulling shots. Descaled, cleaned parts, and here I am doing a backflush (long overdue, I confess) and it's going wild.

It sprays like a jet at this angle with the shower head screwed on. Here it is off, so it's more a waterfall.

Any ideas? my hope is a new portafilter fixes the problem, and the machine isn't warped.

> I have had to pull the portafilter more to the right in the last few months, otherwise steam was shooting out the sides

> the machine has been left on now and then over the years for too long... but this is new.

(PS the portafilter looks weird because I boiled the handle by accident once while cleaning)

here’s my third sinfonia. did this take me forever! For once no punch ins or edits. here’s what I said about my journey elsewhere:

(context: I’m primarily an improviser)

‘A facility that is really starting to come together for me is the ability to perform written music comfortably, without burdensome worry. I start, of course, where we all start: learning to be a student of technique and then a student of form and composition. There’s just no being musical without developing both sides. But in the act of performing a learned piece of music one discovers a completely different skill set is needed as the mind is confronted with all sorts of worries about technique, problem areas, interpretation, and so on.

As I develop my capacity to perform solo written music, I am discovering (at least for me) that when I play in the spirit of improvising and discovering something new, things tend to flow and become more inspired. Whether that has more to do with my temperament as an improviser, I’m not sure, but certainly the willingness to let things go is a universal quality every performer needs to develop