[rodgersorgan] Timeline


It has always been my opinion that Rodgers Church Organs have achieved success 
due to the open 
nature of how the Rodgers people work, do business and think.

A major part of that has been the people that have had musical influences over 
the company.  I can 
think of many names of people that are now with the company as well as others 
that have floated in 
and out of contact with Rodgers through the years.

While some of the luminaries in this list have had great theater organ 
followings, Jonas Nordwall 
and Tom Hazleton among others, they and others were consummate church organists 
as well, making 
their playing and musical contributions to the company go way beyond their 
involvement in theater 
organ projects.

Unfortunately for the Theater Organ crowd, whom I respect, the Theater Organ 
went through its 
Contemporary Instruments Push the Organ Out phase many years ago, and the 
public didn't stop going 
to the movies.

But the instrument is of such interest it lives on, as it should.  Is there 
economic profit, or even 
breakeven status for the creation and marketing of these instruments today?  
That's another story, 
and answered better by looking to the pipe organ builders, whose creation of 
these instruments is 
very rare today.

Just because we love them we would like to see them in the product line.

-- 
noel jones, aago
athens, tennessee, usa
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