Collings 01A/Assisted Living Music

[maplebaby]

[sundaygbrown]

This is heart warming and the Collings just sounds sweet.

[eyesore]

very very nice!!

[Rogerblair]

What a beautiful gift, Dale. The joy that music brings cannot be measured.

I’ve done a few gigs at senior / care facilities and have witnessed folks being moved from motionless to singing and humming along when a song touches their hearts and memory.

Roger

[maplebaby]

Originally Posted by sundaygbrown

This is heart warming and the Collings just sounds sweet.

thank so much for giving this a look!

[maplebaby]

Originally Posted by eyesore

very very nice!!

greatly appreciate you sharing your time to check this out!

[maplebaby]

Originally Posted by Rogerblair

What a beautiful gift, Dale. The joy that music brings cannot be measured.

I’ve done a few gigs at senior / care facilities and have witnessed folks being moved from motionless to singing and humming along when a song touches their hearts and memory.

Roger

agree, nearly impossible to measure the 'magic' of music. It seems the brain retains things when in 'music language' better than most anything else from our life experience. Great to hear about your work in this area!

[ReneAsologuitar]

Very generous!
It has been a while since I visited and played music in Regency Assisted Living in our city.
Thanks for sharing this!
Pray for Ukraine.

[blackie51]

I played at my mother's nursing home about ten years ago, along with another guitarist and pianist. The residents were brought in, all in wheel chairs, and were arranged in a large semi-circle in front of us. By the time we had played a couple of tunes, every single resident had their head down and appeared to be sleeping.

As we continued to play, I noticed that one of the residents, motionless and still with their head down, was tapping their foot to the beat on the footrest of the wheel chair.

Made my day.

Tom

[maplebaby]

Originally Posted by ReneAsologuitar

Very generous!
It has been a while since I visited and played music in Regency Assisted Living in our city.
Thanks for sharing this!
Pray for Ukraine.

thanks for your post, really enjoyed hearing you've done this very thing - praying for Ukraine.

[maplebaby]

Originally Posted by blackie51

I played at my mother's nursing home about ten years ago, along with another guitarist and pianist. The residents were brought in, all in wheel chairs, and were arranged in a large semi-circle in front of us. By the time we had played a couple of tunes, every single resident had their head down and appeared to be sleeping.

As we continued to play, I noticed that one of the residents, motionless and still with their head down, was tapping their foot to the beat on the footrest of the wheel chair.

Made my day.

Tom

great story! thanks for sharing some of your music with us.

[Glennwillow]

It's wonderful that you share some of your time, Dale, to help others. That's a lovely scene in the video, greatly appreciated!

Take care,
Glenn

[maplebaby]

Originally Posted by Glennwillow

It's wonderful that you share some of your time, Dale, to help others. That's a lovely scene in the video, greatly appreciated!

Take care,
Glenn

Thank you Glenn, sincerely appreciated sir.

[maplebaby]

bumping this just to hear from any others who might do this kind of music therapy and get their input.

[gibbyguy]

Awesome to hear this and very refreshing. My wife and I are retired hospice chaplains and we still serve as volunteer chaplains for our company. We play and sing weekly for memory care residents. Nice sounding Collins!