[rodgersorgan] Fro, another list...


Posted to another list...but of interest.
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  "Another way to put a descriptive, but happy face on the relationship of an 
electronic substitute 
to a pipe organ is to think of the former as a "simulator."  I've found this 
helpful in explaining 
our congregation's new Rodgers Trillium 787 to pew-folk with questions.  It 
underscores that there's 
an expensive electromechanical system that's being inexpensively faked.

  Our system, incidentally, is the first organ in our current sanctuary, and 
our congregation's very 
pleased with it and singing better than they ever have.  I hadn't paid much 
attention to 
"simulators" for some years previous to looking for one for our church, and was 
flabbergasted by the 
quality and detail of the sound -- at least, in the one we picked.  Frankly, I 
think that its sound 
is comparable to that of an organ in a chamber.

  We probably could have gotten a small, used, pipe organ for the amount that 
was spent on our T787, 
though I was constrained by our Session not to look in that direction.  In 
retrospect, I'm convinced 
that that approach would not have answered well for our purposes because of our 
building.  The 
auditorium is not a bad shape, roughly 50x80ft footprint with a 26ft peak to 
the ceiling, but it's a 
Butler Building, with a metal frame and sheetrock walls, and the ceiling is 
suspended.  The bass 
response of the room is pretty bad.  Correcting for this during installation 
was merely a matter of 
cranking up gains via the software.  As configured, the instrument's got gobs 
of presence in the 
room without sounding forced."



-- 
noel jones, aago
athens, tennessee, usa
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