[rodgersorganusers] Re: Analog

I have to agree with Ralph.  It is amazing how many times I hear pipe 
organs and think they are digital...we are so used to differing pipe 
from digital by listening to certain inherent 'flaws' in pipe tonal 
production that digital organ now carry as well, that pipe organs tha 
have these 'flaws' eliminated by design or engineering begin to sound 
too precise and 'good'...

WHy are there those taht prefer analog sound?  The first organs to use 
sampled chimes were often criticized..and stil are.  for the chimes 
sounding too much like someone actually striking a chime rod...whcih of 
course is what chimes are.

Analog intrumetns had a very difficult time generating the hum note of 
the chime, that is, the note that soudsn almost an octave lower that the 
struck pitch. Creating chimes out of equally tempered oscillators will 
not permit quarter tones, for example.

noel jones

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