Sigrid Peters, the 73 year
old church organist, told a local newspaper that the «bell should be detached» because it's not right that christenings and marriages are marked by ringing a bell celebrating the far - right party.
Society president David Miller, dean of Wittenberg University's school of music, offered a progress report: the 55 - year -
old hymn society, with 2,000 members — including clergy,
church musicians, poets and hymn writers — was reorganized last year, has recently taken a spurt of growth and seems to have potential for further growth (one place the society is recruiting is among the ranks of the American Guild of
Organists» 24,000 members).