Talk:Organ shoes

The Reason for the Step Heel--ORGAN SHOES

Be gentle with a 1st timer wishing to propose a minor edit of content: "the most common use of the step heel is moving smoothly between two non-adjacent notes (usually a musical third) without striking the note in-between, although it occasionally facilitates playing two non-adjacent notes at once." The reason for the edit should be obvious; organ literature much less frequently calls for striking two notes simultaneously with one foot. ~~CedarQ~~

Organists who do not prefer shoes

Many organists (such as myself) do not subscribe to using "organ shoes". Now, if I played an organ that many other people also played in the same day, foot fungus would concern me and I am sure I would wear something besides socks, but this is not often the case. 66.172.101.250 (talk) 01:57, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Most of them are Capizio ad

So now organ shoes includes everything from patent leather tap shoe all the way to ballet slippers? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.126.75.181 (talk) 20:33, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, it does not. I've removed those photos, and will be going over the text tomorrow. While you can say that whatever shoes you choose to wear while playing the organ are "organ shoes", they don't fit the commonly-accepted definition within the organ world. Et suppositio nil ponit in esse. Mr. P. S. Phillips (talk) 04:50, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 19:19, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Marching fractures

I did a quick search of the medical literature and found no references to "marching fractures" in organists. Most Google hits for marching fractures in organists are from sites selling organ shoes. Can anyone provide a credible, unbiased reference for marching fractures caused by improper organ footwear? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.76.231.238 (talk) 03:47, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]