[rodgersorganusers] Re: Old Analogs

dear ralph;i still often play a rodgers 330 in church and it still sounds 
good.it was better when new and the 147 leslie worked.i loved their flutes.  
milt miller 
> 
> At 08:44 AM 11/18/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> 
> 
> >I have a Rodgers 330E drawknob organ in my home.  I
> >can state unequivically that I could blind fold ANYONE
> >without prior knowledge of the installation and, after
> >playing it, challenge them whether the organ is pipes,
> >analog, or digital.  I can guarantee that few, if any,
> >would guess analog or digital.
> 
> I haven't contributed to this discussion, and am rather reluctant, but.... 
> you surely have to be joking Bradley....
> I have to say without mentioning any brands, that Rodgers Analogue organs 
> were certainly the most wonderful electronic organs in their day, and 
> certainly better than the "Computer Organ" (of similar vintage to the 
> Rodgers LTG organs) I played recently for a service in another church. 
> However: The very nature of the tone generation system and unit keying 
> demanded that the mixtures were all out of tune, and very harsh as a 
> result. As well as that, the sterility associated, not with ENSEMBLE (for 

> it was the best) but with tonal colour made the organs of that time sound 
> very blah, as comparted with properly tuned and voiced PDI technology.
> There is no doubt that they were fine organs, but compared to pipes??????
> Cheers,
> Ralph Rodgers fan from the early seventies.
> 
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