[rodgersorgan] Fro, another list...
- From: noel jones <gedeckt@xxxxxxxx>
- To: rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 13:46:09 -0400
Posted to another list...but of interest.
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"Another way to put a descriptive, but happy face on the relationship of an
electronic substitute
to a pipe organ is to think of the former as a "simulator." I've found this
helpful in explaining
our congregation's new Rodgers Trillium 787 to pew-folk with questions. It
underscores that there's
an expensive electromechanical system that's being inexpensively faked.
Our system, incidentally, is the first organ in our current sanctuary, and
our congregation's very
pleased with it and singing better than they ever have. I hadn't paid much
attention to
"simulators" for some years previous to looking for one for our church, and was
flabbergasted by the
quality and detail of the sound -- at least, in the one we picked. Frankly, I
think that its sound
is comparable to that of an organ in a chamber.
We probably could have gotten a small, used, pipe organ for the amount that
was spent on our T787,
though I was constrained by our Session not to look in that direction. In
retrospect, I'm convinced
that that approach would not have answered well for our purposes because of our
building. The
auditorium is not a bad shape, roughly 50x80ft footprint with a 26ft peak to
the ceiling, but it's a
Butler Building, with a metal frame and sheetrock walls, and the ceiling is
suspended. The bass
response of the room is pretty bad. Correcting for this during installation
was merely a matter of
cranking up gains via the software. As configured, the instrument's got gobs
of presence in the
room without sounding forced."
--
noel jones, aago
athens, tennessee, usa
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