[rodgersorgan] Re: Good organs, badly installed.



Al,
        Good and rewarding thinking! congratulations Al.

Jean
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From: <dallas_wood1@xxxxxxx>
To: <rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 5:59 PM
Subject: [rodgersorgan] Re: Good organs, badly installed.


>
> Hello everyone,
>
>   I just wanted to comment quickly that i agree have seen both good and
bad installations regarding all pipe, all digital, and combinations of the
two..
>   I am currently re-building an instrument that will incorporate digital.
There are several reasons for going partially digital but the main point of
this e-mail is that one has to realize the importance of "finishing" an
instrument.  Not just installing it physically and tuned and walk away.  At
least half of the time i have allotted to this project is devoted entirely
to tonal finishing.  Great care is being taken to ensure that the correct
samples are matched with the period, make and voicing characteristics of the
pipe work to be used.  While this takes much patience and trial and error in
many circumstances do to acoustical and above mentioned circumstances, it
must be remembered that every single organ is built for a specific purpose
and each one "used" to be custom built for their intended location and must
"finished" to meet that goal.  Anything less than that intention or
objective results in a failed installation.  Today's technology allows for a
miriad of solution
>  s to practically any challenge all the way from pipe-work availability to
sound systems and acoustical solutions and digital rank choices so if the
above goals are followed, the result should not have be a bad installation.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Al
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: noel jones
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 2:57 PM
> To: rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [rodgersorgan] Good organs, badly installed.
>
>
>
> I get some mail which deserves to be shared.  I wrote Jean expressing
surprise
> that no one had responded to his post of yesterday.
>
> Hello Noel,
>
>                  I am also surprised by this absence of reaction....
Anyway,
> I would like to make my point here.
>
>                  As far as I am concerned, a pipe organ IS an organ (not
to
> many people can argue about this), an electronic organ IS an organ and so
IS
> a reed organ. There are badly conceived and built electronic organs and
also
> badly conceived and built pipe organs. There are also well engineered and
> built electronic and pipe organs. Also, there are good pipe and electronic
> organs badly installed and voiced. Also there are good organists and
> also....bad ones.
>
>              There is one Rodgers 900 in a church, not far from here. I
once
> spoke with the "organist" there. This person (the one legged type; one
feet
> on the pedalboard and the other one continuously pumping the expression
> pedal) told me that she did't like Rodgers instruments mainly because they
> don't sound like Hammonds and the keyboards are not "soft" (this organ was
> bought second hand and is fitted with the "tracker touch". I also know
that
> the organ was brought there, connected...and away we go...no voicing
> whatsoever). this is an exemple of a GOOD organ, BADLY installed..... and
> played.
>
>                  My point is that a pipe organ will never be an electronic
> and also, an electronic organ will never be a pipe organ. There is enough
> room for both technologies to exist in this vast world. Rodgers dared,
with
> great succes as far as I am concerned, to mix those two. Are those
"hybrids"
> pipe or electronic instruments? I simply don't care, as long as the
concept,
> the installation, the voicing and, most of all, the way itis played are
> good.
>
>                 I do like to hear a pipe organ concert in a large,
> reverberant church or hall...but I aso simply love my two older Rodgers
> analog I have here (a 330E and a 333).
>
> Best....and peace to all!
>
> Jean
> p.s....I won't start an argument, trying to compare analogs with digitals!
>
>
> Hey, let's argue!
>
> --
> noel jones, aago
> athens, tennessee, usa
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