What musical instruments and singers are included at your Mass?

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I usually attend the second Mass on Sunday morning. A small choir, a pianist and a cantor/guitarist are included. I do enjoy hearing another cantor singing so wonderful at the first Mass, but I’m too lazy to get up earlier. What is included in the liturgical music and singing at your Mass?
 
At the Traditional Latin Mass, we have the organ and a Latin Schola. One Novus Ordo Mass has the organ and parish choir while the rest have the organ and a cantor. The Latin Mass mostly has Latin hymns and some traditional English ones. The Novus Ordos have more traditional English hymns with some Latin ones. The Novus Ordo with the parish choir has nearly all Latin hymns.
 
Organ and cantor; at the 0830 Mass a small choir. At the Youth Mass (every 4th Sunday, 1100) – keyboard, guitar, and small youth choir singing timidly in unison. Very occasionally a solo violin, and on very special occasions (Christmas, Easter) I have played a euphonium solo, a euphonium accompaniment to the sung hymns, or a duet with our music director, who is a retired first trumpet from the U.S. Marine Band.
 
Organ, sometimes adding a few orchestral instruments on special days, choir, schola. Music is hymns in both English and Latin, and usually something special at the Offertory.
 
There are three Masses at my parish, a 6pm vigil on the Saturday, 9:30am and 11:15 am which is the Ordinariate Mass. I always go to the 11:15, sometimes to the vigil and today went to the 9:30 as well as I happened to be awake.

We always use the organ at all Masses and always have a cantor. We are very big on sung responses at my parish, almost everything is sung. Other musical instruments aside from the organ are not the norm, but Father sometimes plays the guitar at the vigil Mass (that’s an acoustic guitar not electric).

Hymns are taken from the English Hymnal for the Ordinariate but for all Masses are almost without exception traditional.
 
I normally attend the Saturday evening Mass where any singing is done a capella – but where we usually don’t sing unless there is a Baptism.

Sunday Mass has guitar & lately tambourine which is reason enough for me to keep going on Saturday unless I’m working.
 
Digital piano (and a lousy one at that) some guitars, 2 basses, one violin.
In various groupings depending on the Mass time.
 
5 pm sautrday vigil is a piano and a choir, same for sunday 9 AM mass

sunday 11 AM mass has a bigger concert choir, organ and piano

sunday evening mass is just a piano and a singer, there’s a youth choir once a month, occasionally other instruments such as guitar, bass, violin
 
At our Saturday evening Mass - organ and cantor
Sunday 8am - cantor, usually a cappella
Sunday 11am - organ and cantor/with choir
Sunday evening Latin (EF) Mass - organ, choir, Schola
 
the musical instruments can range from piano accompanied by guitar, flute, violin, sometimes drums and occasionally they use the organ.
 
One or more guitars and piano at all masses. Some masses will also add a drum set or occasionally a flute. We have a digital organ, but I have never heard it played. For singing, it’s anywhere from a single cantor to a 3 part SAB choir (soprano, alto, baritone). Generally it’s a 3 - 5 person choir singing the melody only though. Sometimes they even manage to sing in unity. 😉
 
I roam between three parish churches and piano seems to be used exclusively at the first church. I don’t like piano in church, period.

Another is usually traditional organ, with men’s choir singing a lot of Polish hymns. When they flip a stanza into English, the words are very inspiring, but I don’t know why Polish is so prevalent, except that the organist is native Polish.

the third parish church has a music synthesizer, and the music director is parked in the sanctuary, with the choir with very unaesthetic boom microphones. To make matters worse, a guitar man shows up on Sunday nights with (to me) no added value; in fact, he’s distracting before Mass because he takes a half hour to tune up. The choir members are devoted but most of them have musical range issues.

In this last church, I think the pastor is trying to use some torture to shift people to the other church in our parish – I estimate that we sing over 60 stanza and choruses (combined) during every Mass, which make Mass about 15 minutes longer than in the other main church in the parish. I really do think this is intentional. Further, I have a weak voice, and my cords are strained if I try to sing all of this. So, to me, this is counter-productive and liturgically inappropriate. I just tune out and mentally wander off distractedly.

the musical director here donated the music synthesizer. The first one was used for years, but I was sitting in one of the front pews when it shorted out – due to a power surge to the guitar amplifier! I bet she didn’t like that; she didn’t have a surge protector on this expensive music synthesizer. I think she dug into her pockets AGAIN and bought a smaller replacement electronic music synthesizer. The novelty of it wears off quickly.
 
At the 7P Mass on Saturday evening we have a Cantor, Choir, keyboard, guitar & drums. The other two Saturday evening Masses & all six Sunday Masses have a Cantor, Choir & organ.
 
At the. Catholic church I attend there is a small choir. Usually a guitar ans sometimes.especially a flute.
 
I normally attend the 5:30 pm youth mass on Sunday. Piano, acoustic guitar and drums (very light, can barely hear them) with 2 or 3 youths singing with the pianist.
 
the Saturday vigil we have a cantor and one or two other singers. the early Sunday Mass has a cantor and a choir of about 25. The following Mass has a cantor and 3-4 others who sing and they have the most musical instruments.
 
On Saturday evening at 5:30 and Sunday morning at 8, we have cantor and organ. At 11, we have choir and organ. Sometimes, there is trumpet, especially during festive Masses or seasons.
 
We have a piano and/or organ at all Masses, a Cantor for 2 Sunday Masses and the Sat. pm Mass, a small choir at 9AM and the full choir at 10:45, both of which also have a Cantor. We have a wonderful youth orchestra that plays once a month, and on occasions like Christmas and Easter , a handbell choir that plays on holidays and at some prayer services, and also adults will play with the orchestra on special occasions like Christmas and Easter. Also, as a special treat on holidays, we have a harpist with the orchestra, which is a beautiful touch. This orchestra is made up of the local high school kids, and the director is also the director of music at the high school, and they are an award-winning orchestra. We are very blessed, our holiday Masses are exquisite musically.

Occasionally, a guitar or violin will accompany the group at 9am, but they only accompany the organ or piano, they are not the main instrument.

The main drawback is that almost everything shuts down for the summer, and we only have the Cantor and piano or organ.
 
7pm vigil Mass in Polish - no instruments, congregation singing only
9am English Mass - organ music, congregation singing
11am Polish Mass - organ music, cantor, choir singing with congregation
7pm English Masss - no instruments, congregation singing only
 
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