My church wants to get hymn boards. I am wondering (because it would be incredibly convenient for our set of circumstances) if double-sided free-standing hymn boards exist anywhere and where I might buy them?
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I'm intrigued with this question - after our hymn board lists the Sunday, the processional, the Kyriale, the Credo, and the recessional, there is too little room to show Benediction hymns, and it's a problem! I envision a freestanding double sided hymn board, which can be turned around and have more listings on the second side
Yes, that is the way. I am happy to see that spreading. Now, if we had Cantus Selecti, I would use it for evening services and put the number on the board. But we don’t, and we have special common prayers as it is, so I make a sheet.
That also introduces complications! You can’t put everything on there, and you don’t want to have to swap things out too much.
In France, the trads often use a chalkboard listing the date, the Sunday or feast, the kyriale, any hymns, which works, but you have to do it every time — my hymnboard with the Kyriale alone stays as it is on Sundays from now until August 15 (actually, it has been the same from July 1) because I don’t have space to list the Sunday, and I only need to remove the Asperges card and switch the Mass number (from XI to IX or IV). I had to make cards by hand with stencils and markers (they’re cut awkwardly unfortunately but oh well) and it annoying when I have an alternate Asperges or Kyrie (in Advent and Lent) but I wouldn’t want more info up there. And I would want a second board for Vespers and Thursday evenings when we have benediction if I had a book to use.
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