Video: voicing organ pipes

[Note: what follows is the entry I posted on Monday, then deleted, because I couldn't see the video. I'll re-post it, because you should be able to see it unless you use the same LJ style as me. In case you can't, the link to the video on YouTube is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0icYKmGfnw ]

For what it's worth, here is my first attempt at shooting a video (on the Canon PowerShot) and uploading to Youtube. The past few days in the shop I've been voicing some organ pipes that were too shrill. It took about 12 hours and was a particularly tedious task (usually, my job is not boring!), so I shot a demonstrational video to pass the time. The sound quality is better than the visual. I'll try larger subject matter in better light next time.

My boss flew home last night from 10 days away, partly business, partly pleasure. He had been planning to take today off, so I left a message for him that I would be going into the shop for a few hours to finish off these pipes, but there was no need for him to make an appearance.

He did anyway, just to take me out to lunch, and seemed very happy to see me. I can hardly explain how this moved me. Simply put, I've never really felt appreciated in a job before this. How many people would be so lucky to go to work for a friend and have it work out so well?

He had excellent news, too. One of the churches he visited may have a large job coming up for us. It is way off in Northwestern Ontario two hours from Winnipeg (closer to big wilderness than I've ever gone), so we're probably looking at travel fun for Van. Let's just hope it doesn't all happen in winter. It will be on a similar scale to the one we're working on now¹, which is already expected to keep me employed for the better part of 2007. So the future looks as promising as ever.

¹ Essentially building a new organ, incorporating a few old pipes.