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Really great encouragement for the power of inspirational instrumnents

Started by organforumadmin, April 29, 2010, 10:16:50 AM

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organforumadmin

Hi!

I have just seen that YouTube is making stats publicly available and they are fascinating.

On my YouTube videos it looks as though my programme to try to excite the upcoming generation about an important area of culture which will otherwise be lost is succeeding . . .

If you click on the box at the bottom right of videos with the number of views a whole new pane appears with lots of stats . . . including the age range of the audience.

On http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=E8m2ok1Hlh0 and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe_eJ60PmtM it appears that we are reaching 13 to 17 year olds - which is a really good start, but only males.

Can anyone think how to get the organ to appeal to females other than wrapping them in pink and telling them that the organ will turn them into princesses? Is this sex bias inherent in interest in the organ or is it on account of Disneyfication of the female species?

It would be very interesting if in perusing YouTube others might see if there are any trends with regard to organs and programme preferences of different age groups.

Best wishes

David P

revtonynewnham

Hi

In the main, it seems that women organists tend to keep a low profile - and that seems to have been the case  throughout recent history at least.  (Obviously, there are notable exceptions).  Maybe the ladies just get on with playing rather than thinking about the more technical aspects of our favourite instrument.

Every Blessing

Tony