[rodgersorgan] Re: performance indication

  I have had this problem before with certain literature and agree that a 
substantial instrument is indeed best for tonal blend-ness.  Sometimes however, 
a heavily unified real pipe instrument can be very accomodating to such a piece 
as many stops are derived from the same ranks.  There-fore, the tonal changes 
regarding to mutations and such are considerably less likely to be as bumpy.  
My rodgers 35AD for example is probrably the best "older" electronic instrument 
i have used for things like this as it is quite heavily unified and all 3 
divisions are under expression.  I find it very easy to play these type of 
pieces with this instrument with minor effort and practice regarding "setting 
the instrument up".  My instrument has 46 speaking stops unified from i believe 
5-7 "ranks" of electronics.   

  On the other hand, The organ i play at church, a small 1932 Moller, has more 
ranks, 11-12, and only about 14 stops, (no mixture),  with the usual 4/16 
couplers and unison off on each manual and 8/4 to the pedal on each manual.  
This is where the shutters come into play when the best choice for FF is to 
through the 4' couplers.  This can be tricky but it does work well if the 
timing is right.

Al
  
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Gawthrop
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 11:16 AM
To: rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [rodgersorgan] Re: performance indication
  


> "The effectiveness of this piece depends on the
> gradual crescendo from pp to full organ. The secret
> of this is the judicious and all but imperceptible
> diminuendi in the course of the crescendo so that
> the general effect is one of continued piling up of
> tone until it becomes a veritable avalanche of
> sound."

It strikes me that one might accomplish this by
beginning with swell boxes wide open, gradually adding
stops for the crescendo and very slightly closing the
boxes somewhat for the diminuendi. Once full organ has
been achieved, the boxes could then be re-opened for
the final blaze of glory.

This would effectively lengthen the crescendo and
smooth out the "bumps" of stops being added. It seems
to meet the description you quoted. I think this would
require an fairly substantial instrument with at least
two enclosed divisions to be really effective.

Just a thought, but might be worth a try!

Dan Gawthrop


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