[rodgersorganusers] Re: Analog
- From: Ralph Cullen <rcullen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:34:40 +1300
Here's another story,
The first time I heard the recording of Dan Miller at the Calvary Baptist,
I thought it was an electronic organ it was so even and well tuned.
Ralph
At 09:29 AM 11/19/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Hello, Noel, et al:
>
>You wrote:
>
> > Some people prefer analog organs because they sound
>electronic.
> >
> > Since the Rodgers electronic organs, if they sound like pipes
>rather
> > than electronics, there are those that do not like them.
>
>Let me add a story...
>
>A very close friend died, and we went to his funeral. As I sat
>in the pew listening to the organist play, I was impressed that
>this sounded like a very good Hammond installation. It puzzled
>me, for I could see the back side of the console, ...and it was
>not shaped like a Hammond.
>
>After the service was over, and I was allowed to move about,
>the organist continued to play. When I got to where I could
>see the keyboard side of the console, I was amazed to see that
>it was a Rodgers.
>
>Whatever that organ could have sounded like, it was registered
>with all trems wide open until she got the sound she was
>comfortable with, and then never changed it, except to make
>it a bit louder or softer with the expression shoe(s).
>
>True story.
>
>So, if that organist had a favorite style of sound, she got
>this Rodgers to sound like a Hammond quite well.
>
>F. Richard Burt
>
>
>.
>
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