[ noun ] a person who plays an organ <noun.person>
Organist \Or"gan*ist\, n. [Cf. F. organiste.] 1. (Mus.) One who plays on the organ.
2. (R. C. Ch.) One of the priests who organized or sung in parts. [Obs.]
In the early '70s, he worked occasionally with organist Merl Saunders and Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia.
The spirit may be willing, but the salary is weak, and church officials say that finding an organist is getting harder.
Three of them travel the country giving occasional organ recitals and playing at silent film festivals. Brubacher says he's the only surviving resident organist at a movie theater.
Investigators have narrowed to four the list of suspects in the strangling of a 16-year-old church organist who was abducted from the sanctuary where she was cleaning up for services, police said Monday.
Miss King was a senior honor student at T.R. Miller High School and played with the school band, in addition to performing as the church organist.