Hi, all small organ aficionados.

A few days I stumbled on YouTube across Nadia Weintraub's rendition of
Billy Mayerl's "The Jazz Master."  I thought to myself, "This might be
possible on the Alderman-Wright 26er scale," and I must say, after
having neglected that scale for too long, it was very much fun writing
chromatic scales for such a small organ!

Also, reducing a stride that spans five or six octaves on the piano to
the two to three octaves of a small organ, while still keeping at least
some of the composer's intentions alive, is an interesting task, albeit
I had to drop a few of Mayerl's more daring chords.

Maybe someone else will get some joy out of my rendition of "The Jazz
Master": 

    http://www.haraldmmueller.de/arr26_en.htm 

It is the last piece in the "Jazz" section of the webpage.  Please
forgive the sub-optimal recording, made using just a laptop.

By the way, Nadia Weintraub needed two minutes fifteen seconds for the
whole piece; I couldn't do it in less than three full minutes, even
though I go mechanical.

Harald M. Mueller
Grafing near Munich