[rodgersorgan] Re: Transposer

Randall Smith has just reminded me of something: "I just consider the 
transposer a modern day miracle because it can transpose pipes too.  That's a 
HUGE advantage to me, never having a
transposer until the installation of our pipe/digital organ."

We don't always get the big picture...Rodgers has done a masterful job of 
bringing the digital organ into a major position in the church music by making 
a digital organ software-based,
which takes a traditionally mechanical device like a transposer (moving 
keyboards to the left or right on organs, piano and harpsichords, or using 
mechanical pistons or physical switches
to register pitch changes) and making it a function of software. As a software 
device it can be controlled not only by the physical knob, but also by the 
cancel button.

Building a console that can totally control pipes gracefully as an everyday 
function is also a triumph.

Being able to set MIDI voices, including voices from other manufacturer's voice 
modules, on all pistons of the organ is also a triumph.

The ability to set the overall range of expression shutter control so that the 
organ can match pipework that has an older shutter control system of limited 
levels.

Voicing of every note of every stop of every organ built in the church or home 
that it will be playing in.

A few of these advances have been included in other instruments since Rodgers 
introduced them, which further illustrates Rodgers' role as an innovator, not 
working to keep up with other
builders, but stepping forward to provide leadership.

As I have said many times, Rodgers does not appear to base improvements on what 
others are doing, but rather on what should be done.

noel jones, aago
athens, tennessee, usa
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