Organists and Organ Playing

A pack or a herd?

What’s a group of dinosaurs called?

This is what I found after a Google search:

It is generally considered safe to refer to a group of hunting predators, such as Velociraptors, as a pack and a large group of herbivores, such as sauropods, as a herd.

Yet, on Quora, I found this:

Depends on the type of dinosaur.
Group of Struthomimus. Call them a flock.
Group of Apatosaurs I’d call a cacophony
group of Allosaurus would be a Carnage.
Group of Ankylosaurs. A Troop
Group of Hadrosaurs? A Saurlophus.
A group of Tyrannosaurs. A Reign.

Here’s another question. What does it mean to call someone a dinosaur?

Someone or something thought of as being old-fashioned, outmoded, resistant to change, etc. noun. The definition of a dinosaur is someone who resists change or is old-fashioned.

When I started taking organ lessons as a teenager, little did I ever think I would be considered a dinosaur, a member of an extinct species.

Yet “a herd of dinosaurs” was what I was thinking as the Hawaii Chapter of the American Guild of Organists met in the recreation area of my condo last night. Admittedly, not everyone here is an organist, but they are associated in one way or another with someone who plays the organ. I was most gratified to see many new faces in our group! You’ll see me sitting next to Tyler Ramos, one of the AGO’s newest scholarship students. We’ll start organ lessons in November when I come back from Europe.

Roger Koopman took the photo. I’m on the far right, in the red T-shirt.

We had an old-fashioned AGO Potluck, something which has not been done in this chapter for years, partly because of the pandemic, but also because in recent years, there was no enthusiasm for such a thing, and we’ve either had food catered or went to a restaurant. We started off in the “Long House,” a party facility in my condo surrounded by koi ponds and a waterfall. I was really surprised at the quantity of the food that was given; in fact, I ended up with MUCH MORE than I either contributed or ate as the leftover food was put in my refrigerator.

Because I wanted for us to have a “sustainable” party, I found these gorgeous plastic dishes from Party City and used my own silverware and stemless wine glasses.

Afterwards we came upstairs to the 35th floor and a few people tried out my little organ and harpsichord.

We had a lot of fun and I was happy to host this gathering of “dinosaurs!”