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In this series of 4 pictures, the fellow being instructed is supposed to be Awash2002. Here his face can be seen for comparisons with his actual photo here (click).
I think I missed the mark somewhat. I will make more of a study of it and update this picture as necessary. I got the beard, the glasses, and the color of hair, at least. I am using DAZ-3D's M4 figure. Anyone good at duplicating faces with 3D feel free to advise me.
Of course, to be fair (to me), there are some different situations in this picture and his photo above. In the picture with Gloria, he is inside, under subdued lighting. He is dressed more formally than in his photo. After all, he assumed he was going to class for organ instruction. Perhaps he did not realize the more-than-informal ways of the residents of Tulao'otupu. He could have just as well came wearing a bikini.

Later, I might try a hand-drawn version of this. I generally do better with making drawings look like somebody with hand drawings.
Note my picture with organist E. Power Biggs in it (click):
Compare to this picture:
E. Power Biggs, Wikipedia article

However, due to my schedule, I have only 1 day a week where I have time and the place to do hand-drawn pictures. So it might be a while.

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:bulletgreen: Gloria Running Rainbow Showing Awash Stops and Pistons (or Studs) of a Pipe Organ :bulletgreen:

The gentleman that calls his channel/space on Deviant Art "Awash2002" is here being shown basic lessons about the organ by instructor Gloria Running Rainbow. Here, she is discussing "stops" and the related "pistons" or "studs", how to set them and release them, and about couplers (like coupling the "Great" manual to the "Choir" manual and so on (that is, 2 or more manuals are played by playing one)). It is kind of like a first organ lesson.

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Okay, first, we have to discuss how Gloria Running Rainbow got to "our planet"...
Anyone who has been following my musclewomen.com site and then here for any time knows Gloria Running Rainbow to be the well-known Taqh-species organist of Shasheer ("muscle women planet"). With angelic pink-blond hair and red eyes, she is somewhat of a curiosity on Shasheer. She is a Taqh species, whom, it was thought, were incapable of sophisticated music. But she is very accomplished. Some Shasheerians even attribute strange powers to her, like levitating and appearing in 2 places at once. The "Shasheerian version" of Gloria is a very strong cyclist, capable of pedaling her velomobile up hill at astounding speeds and burning up the level portions. Gloria is unusual for a Taqh species. She is very quiet and soft spoken. Her eyes seem to x-ray you to your soul levels. People say she does not blink, but perhaps she blinks when the viewer blinks. Though she does not go around doing it, she could out-stare anyone.

Gloria, the Taqh species that she is, has her own approach to music. Sheets of music are conspicuously absent. She has "mapped" the music in her mind which is no small feat. She plays things similar to and as complicated as Toccata and Fugue in D-minor with only funny little cartoony looking notes and characters she draws herself on sheets that she puts up as a guide, rather than music sheets with all those music notes. That's typical "right-brainism" of the Taqh species of Shasheer for you. Their brains are on the same level as Neanderthal humans of Earth were. Taqh do not approach things analytically. Rather, they "feel" it out "spatially", so to speak. Betaqh species people on other hand, almost always have music sheets and have a more left-brained, analytical approach to playing music for the organ.

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Okay, the above paragraphs apply to Shasheer and "the Gloria Running Rainbow" of there. Now, as you know, we have been reporting the development of Tulao'otupu, a Pacific island isolated in the Pacific. An organization of amazons bought the island and developed their own civilization on it.

The whole story is here (click), when you have time. When the page loads, scroll down just a bit to see the splash about Amazon Island, then click again for adult warning page and then the story.

Not all the amazons and their men on the island have undergone regression hypnosis of course, but those that have almost always speak of a consistent set of various characteristics and scenes that indicate another planet in their past-life profile. Some give it a name, "Shasheer", which is generally thought to mean "earth" in their language. (Probably every civilization in the galaxy and beyond calls their planet "Earth" in whatever language they speak. When pronounced, it may sound like "Shasheer", "Vuton", "Ghanzt" "Vulcan", "Zeelaiqh", "Ahzzz", and all manner of things. Then we just refer to their planet by their own word, that's all.)

Gloria Running Rainbow is an Earth incarnation of the same soul as was (or is, assuming simultaneous incarnations) the Gloria Running Rainbow of Shasheer. (Or she is doing that 2-places-at-once thing that some Shasheerians speak of!)

At first, several amazons a day arrived to Tulao'otupu to stay and live. After several years, that has reduced to a few a month, but it continues steadily.

Well, one day a 6-feet-7 (in bare feet), blond amazon arrived to Tulao'otupu from Germany. She just went by Gloria. Later, everyone called her Gloria Running Rainbow. Among the things she brought or had shipped to her new Tulao'otupu home, was a great big, Hammond B-3 electronic organ and its accompanying Leslie speaker, which is her practice and sometimes performance instrument.

On Tulao'otupu, the automobile has been banned. When Gloria is asked to perform in a town, she has to bring nearly 800 pounds of organ and Leslie with her. Most musicians use a van for that! For Tulao'otupu, a big, special trailer was made for it by the Velomobiel.nl factory that Tulao'otupu's president managed to get on Tulao'otupu. Anyway, the special trailer carries the organ and Leslie comfortably and safely, but it is heavy to tow behind a velomobile! Later, one of the Polynesian technicians that built a line of a Tulao'otupu version of the electric-assist Cab-bike velomobile, came up with a custom electric velomobile to pull the Hammond B-3 trailer.

Later, however, Gloria made a wonderful discovery. As with many buildings on Tulao'otupu, the jungle had reclaimed a particular church building. A church on Tulao'otupu? With its sordid history and now with those sex-driven amazons running it? Yep, and it is the only one. (So far discovered. The jungle may be holding others.) And, it has a for-real, tracker-action pipe organ!
Of course, it was in shambles. The pipes had animal and bird nests, the trackers were rusted or rotted, the manuals all discombobulated. This was a project for Gloria!

She discovered it with the help of other amazons who were showing her places to hike. While exploring the jungle-engulfed cathedral, Gloria pushed in the rusted-shut but rotting door to the church, and then she beheld the crumbling remains of a smallish, but respectable pipe organ.

After asking for funds from President Nguyen Hue Bich, and then President Nguyen Hue Bich got on "state television" and sweetly begged for funds from all those adoring amazons (Tulao'otupu has no taxes), the funds, sure enough, began coming in. Even Gloria got on state television along with President Bich, and explained how great a pipe organ would sound. She played videos of pipe organ performances over the air. Gloria claimed, "My B-3 is great, but a true pipe organ puts any electronic organ to the back of the bus any day!"

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Work on restoring the church building and the organ within began. First the building and grounds had to be cleared, repaired, and restored. Fortunately, the building was well built on a concrete base, and was made of stone blocks. Gloria, with amazon assistants, analyzed what the organ would need. It was a wreck. Heat and humidity are not good for the usual tracker-action pipe organ. It would practically need to be rebuilt.

While rebuilding, the organ was "tropicalized", that is, rebuilt with modern materials that would be impervious to heat and humidity and not effect playability. Trackers, for example, were made of high-durability plastic, or aluminum. Other key mechanical parts were replaced by stainless steel or aluminum. Wooden pipes were rebuilt with wood that was treated against rot. Metal pipes were cleaned, polished, or replaced, then coated with a sealant. Finally, air conditioning was installed into the church building. Solar panels and a wind generator were set up so that the church building would have its own electricity most of the time, since Tulao'otupu's electricity is subject to roving blackouts.

While restoring the organ, the pipes of the 32-foot ranks were noted to be laying down along the sides of the cathedral in special spaces and structures. At first, it was thought that they had tumbled. But no, they were designed that way! You see, the smallish cathedral is only 20 feet tall on the inside. There is insufficient room for the 32-foot ranks! So, they were laid on their sides! They speak just fine that way, but it was an unusual arrangement for a pipe organ to say the least.

The console had to be almost completely replaced. It was 3 manuals before. It was rebuilt with 5 manuals, three tracker-action and the two top ones electric action. The stops are electrically activated, so they are tab switches instead of the knobs which are pulled out (to activate). All pistons are electric, and not only that, but computerized. Registrations are stored into the memory of the pistons, and there are 5 sets of memories, so that up to 5 organists can keep their favorite registrations despite other organists using them. Not that there are that many organists on Tulao'otupu!

Gloria and others are trying to get the organist Diane Bish to visit for a concert on Tulao'otupu, but Diane Bish is a bit conservative so that coming to an island full of big, naked amazons might rankle her conservative sensibilities.

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At the time of the picture above, there was airline service to Tulao'otupu. From any location in USA, one might generally fly to either Seattle, San Francisco, or Los Angeles to get on a plane that goes to Tahiti. Then Tahiti airlines flies one to Tulao'otupu. But Awash flew his own plane. Due to fuel range issues, he "island hopped", first flying from San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii, then from there, straight to Tulao'otupu! It is actually closer than going through Tahiti or American Samoa, which are the usual centers the airlines will take you to before flying to Tulao'otupu.

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Gloria Running Rainbow gives organ lessons to residents and visitors to Tulao'otupu. She approaches it in a "spatial" way, definitely a right brained, feeling sort of way. She begins with the Minuet in G Major which is fairly easy (uses only the white keys), then introduces left hand accompaniment, then the pedal base. After getting a student well off on that, she introduces other music, some church hymnal songs such as "Rock of Ages" and so on. If they stick around, she will take a student up to things like Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. (Thats the one that the Toccata part is heard a lot around Halloween.)

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In these series of pictures above, she is showing Awash the stops, pistons, and couplers. It looks intimidating, but it is as simple or complicated as one wants it to be or can handle. Without much trouble, one can play a rather nice Minuet in G Major just on that lowest manual (probably the "Great") with their most dexterous hand (usually right), with only a few stops pulled. Similarly, Christian hymns can be learned, either just the basic melody, playing with only one dexterous hand, or she will take you to accompaniment of the other hand and pedal base. "Mighty Fortress is Our God", "Holy, Holy, Holy", and "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name" come to mind as examples of that ilk. "Rock of Ages" sounds good on an organ too.

You actually read all that? Well, below are some delights for you if you like pipe organs...
Links of interest:
:bulletblue:Diane Bish playing "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name" on the Walcker pipe organ of Ulm, Germany.
:bulletgreen:Diane Bish playing "Holy Holy Holy" on the organ of the Basilica of St. Nazaire in Carcassonne, France
:bulletred:Karl Richter playing Toccata and Fugue in D Minor Note the young man helping with the stops. His son perhaps?...
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