[rodgersorgan] Re: Rodgers Pipe Organ



Carlo -

Yes, it was a memorable evening.  My music director and I were in Dallas at 
a music convention (Kempke's) and we flew down to Houston for the evening 
for the concert.  We arrived early and went into the auditorium to check out 
the organ.  We had met Diane Bish several times at concerts and workshops 
and were surprised to see her at the console an hour before the concert in 
her street clothes.  We walked up and she said she really didn't have time 
to talk, that the organ had had a microprocessor failure and she was 
frantically reprogramming all her combinations for the concert.  So not to 
continue rambling, it appears that there was a fairly significant failure 
with the memory prior to the concert.

I'm not aware of another all-pipe Rodgers instrument.  I have a bunch of AGO 
magazines from that era that I have been using to do some research for our 
church (we are designing a custom 4-manual with pipes) and I haven't come 
across another all-pipe example.

Thanks -

Van Howard


>From: "Carlo Pietroniro" <organist@xxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: "Rodgers Organs" <rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [rodgersorgan] Rodgers Pipe Organ
>Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:35:17 -0400
>
>I posted this before and it seems to have been lost, so I'll post it 
>again......
>
>Is the 5-manual Rodgers in the Second Baptist church in Houston Texas, 
>Rodgers' only all-pipe installation, or are there more?
>
>Also, I was at the AGO convention there, back in 1988 (or was it 87?), 
>where Diane Bish played a concert, and I heard something about the capture 
>system going on the fritz. Did this really happen?
>
>carlo pietroniro
>
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