This is too funny! I had a similar situation happen to me one
Christmas Morning at the early Mass. This woman ascended the organ
loft stairs, banged open the door and informed me I was playing too
loudly--she couldn't hear herself think. To which I replied: a.) you
aren't here to think, b.) It's Christmas Day and Joy to the World is
a celebratory piece that isn't loud, simply full in tone and c.) that
I didn't tell her how to worship so she shouldn't tell me how to play
an organ. I then wished her a Merry Christmas and shut the door. The
interesting side note about the service was that I received many
compliments on the music and it's performance that day!

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> > My "irritant" is the bride or the mother of the bride. At one
> > wedding rehearsal, the soloist and I were practising a Celine
Dion
> > piece that was going to be played as one of the preludes (during
> > the seating of the mothers, I think). The church of course was
> > empty of people save the wedding party. The soloist and I were
> > quite comfortable with the volume of the organ. The bride came
up
> > to me and started complaining that the music was too loud. I
lost
> > it. I told her that a) the building would be full when we did
this
> > piece the next day; b) she wouldn't even hear it because she
would
> > be in the bride's room); and c) she was paying me for my
experience
> > and expertise and since I was very familiar with the building and
> > its acoustics (it's where I was playing on a regular basis at the
> > time), she'd do well to get her money's worth and let me be the
> > judge.
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> > She promptly shut up and that was the end of that. Last year,
her
> > younger sister asked me to play for her wedding, so apparently
they
> > were satisfied with the music at the first wedding.
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> > By the way - it's things like this that make me avoid playing
> > weddings whenever possible.
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> > Mark in Kansas.