[ Mickey Sadler wrote: ]

> The band organ is too loud for employees?  I would suggest it is
> the type of music.  I would bet that if the music was Eminem, JaRule,
> Li'l Kim, Eve, etc.  they would be wanting the volume turned up.

Welcome to the new millennium!

Well, as you guys have now already figured out what the problem
exactly is, how about solving it the way I do it:  just _make_
modern music for our beautiful instruments!

Even with the risk that elderly patrons might come up to the kids
and tell them, "I think there is something broken with the organ,"
it _is_ the way to go.  I personally experience that every time
I play music from "Metallica" on my organ!

But what I also experience is the more-and-more often appearing
appreciation by the generation which _I_ focus on: "Cool!"  "Is
that really Metallica," or "How did you do that?"

If you give it the chance and allow to have them play their very
own music, you will at least get a tiny chance -- not only to have
the organ playing at all, but -- to also hear some of the more typical
and "appropriate" (What is *that* supposed to mean, anyway?!) music
for such an instrument.

I firmly do not believe that I am the only one to make such music,
but if you don't find anybody else, I'm very open to new demands...

Even slightly newer style of music might even do the trick: Beatles,
Beach Boys, Elvis Presley..., you name it!  It simply doesn't have
to be opera or march music all the time!

And a last word about the "music in front of the shop."  Here in
Victoria we hear that at every corner.  Almost every mall has such
music running outside, all 24/7 convenience stores have them and even
in front of Kentucky Fried Chicken you are welcomed with classical
music.

Now, the only funny thing about that is that when I first came here
I was actually pleased with the choice/taste of music these stores
seemed to have to _attract_ the people, only later on I was told that
this is a measure taken to rid of dem pesty panhandlers!

greetings by(e) InK - Ingmar Krause
Victoria, BC, Canada
Erlangen, BY, Germany

 [ An excellent observation, Ingmar: the music style, not the sheer
 [ loudness, is what repels or attracts people.  So who spends more
 [ money at the carousel or the fairground attraction: those who like
 [ classical music, or those who like modern pop hits?  -- Robbie