Are you sitting comfortably? – the Adjustable Benches Campaign

Has this happened to you?  You are booked to play for a wedding or funeral in a distant town. You carefully research the disposition of the organ online, and choose your music accordingly.  You feel as prepared as you can be, but then, arriving at the church and being led up to the organ console, your see the bench - and your heart sinks. Organist Marian Lees McPherson continues 'This happened to me - I saw the bench– and it was not only non-adjustable but had wooden blocks fixed to its base! Clearly the six-foot-plus resident organist had altered it…