[rodgersorgan] Re: Consoles

I owned Black Beauty for a number of years beginning in 1983.  Please 
clarify your remarks about "adjustable keydesk , top half of console 
and music rack."  The music rack was easily removed as it was rarely if 
ever used by Virgil, but I don't know about these other moveable 
functions.  Did all that escape me?

Harry
On Saturday, September 20, 2003, at 09:09  AM, Noel Heinze wrote:

>
> There never was a console that fit me.  I used to be 6'1", have shrunk 
> in my
> old age to about 5'9" but my legs are just as long as ever, so I 
> always have
> to raise the bench 2-3" to avoid playing side-saddle.  My knees often 
> hit
> the lower keyboard, even hit pistons if I'm not careful.  I don't mind 
> low
> music racks since I'm so short-waisted, if I can put couplers or stops 
> on
> pistons  (or as I've seen on some organs, the couplers are mixed in 
> with the
> other stop knobs).  I envy Rodgers' famous Black Beauty and similar 
> consoles
> where the entire keydesk and top half of the console can be raised or
> lowered, ditto music rack.  We have adjustable benches, sometimes 
> adjustable
> racks, why not adjustable keydesks?
>
> I'm nearsighted, too (why DID my good wife marry me?)...so I peered 
> over the
> top of my glasses unless the rack was too high for that, got bifocals 
> and
> "Varilux," finally had a pair made just for playing organ, and they 
> work
> fine IF I can position my head/line of sight just exactly right so
> everything's in focus...which is more trouble than it's worth, so I 
> don't
> use the blinkin' things.
>
> Noel Heinze, Asheville, NC
> St. Giles Chapel, Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community
> Rodgers 835B and PR300S
>
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