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I just married off my son on the 29th of March and, as I finished my
20-note John Smith busker organ just in time, the family decided to
play the crank organ during the religious ceremony of the wedding.

The bride's brother played "The Harmonious Blacksmith" from Haendel.
The music was beautiful.  Five pauses in the piece of music allowed us
to hear the sound running and twirling inside the church, the echoes
fading away to vanish into a deep silence revealing the acute attention
of the whole audience.  The young man was warmly applauded, and I must
say this is not at all usual in a French Catholic church!

And yet the church organ was beautiful too!  My friend, Olivier Bouet,
usually a piano concertist, mastered it.  Despite his minimizing claim
that he plays the organ as "a legless cripple", he was very good at it,
indeed.  We will remember his performance of Peer Gynt for ever!

Are we allowed to talk of a competition between those two organs when
both were acting for meditation, joy and love?  If so, we attended
a quite improbable, unbelievable match.  On one hand the hand-played
church organ with its powerful, bright, clever and sensitive play,
and on the other hand the little crank organ with its simple, pure and
emotional play...

Which one won the match?  Nobody could tell until the end of the
ceremony when it became obvious that the crank organ could follow the
people outside, now playing light and fresh music that whirled around
the bride and groom!  At the same time, the organ inside the church
played louder and louder, trying desperately to hold the crowd back...
The crank organ "won by a KO!"

"Never was so much done by so little to so many."  If I do dare to
parody and joke with Churchill's famous wartime quote nowadays, it is
because I have no doubt at all on our deep friendship.

The problem:

My problem is that my daughter will get married too on the 4th of
October.  The busker organ is highly requested again but we need some
new piece of music for it.

Can any MMDist help me in the search of classical music for this 20-note
John Smith organ?  Any suggestions for church [music], punched rolls,
contacts, etc.?

Thank you to Robbie, who makes up for my English grammar and vocabulary
weaknesses, and thank you to J. Smith who involuntarily contributed to
the success of the wedding ceremony.

All the best to all of you.

Jean Nimal
France