[rodgersorgan] Good organs, badly installed.
- From: noel jones <gedeckt@xxxxxxxx>
- To: rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 14:56:46 -0400
I get some mail which deserves to be shared. I wrote Jean expressing surprise
that no one had responded to his post of yesterday.
Hello Noel,
I am also surprised by this absence of reaction.... Anyway,
I would like to make my point here.
As far as I am concerned, a pipe organ IS an organ (not to
many people can argue about this), an electronic organ IS an organ and so IS
a reed organ. There are badly conceived and built electronic organs and also
badly conceived and built pipe organs. There are also well engineered and
built electronic and pipe organs. Also, there are good pipe and electronic
organs badly installed and voiced. Also there are good organists and
also....bad ones.
There is one Rodgers 900 in a church, not far from here. I once
spoke with the "organist" there. This person (the one legged type; one feet
on the pedalboard and the other one continuously pumping the expression
pedal) told me that she did't like Rodgers instruments mainly because they
don't sound like Hammonds and the keyboards are not "soft" (this organ was
bought second hand and is fitted with the "tracker touch". I also know that
the organ was brought there, connected...and away we go...no voicing
whatsoever). this is an exemple of a GOOD organ, BADLY installed..... and
played.
My point is that a pipe organ will never be an electronic
and also, an electronic organ will never be a pipe organ. There is enough
room for both technologies to exist in this vast world. Rodgers dared, with
great succes as far as I am concerned, to mix those two. Are those "hybrids"
pipe or electronic instruments? I simply don't care, as long as the concept,
the installation, the voicing and, most of all, the way itis played are
good.
I do like to hear a pipe organ concert in a large,
reverberant church or hall...but I aso simply love my two older Rodgers
analog I have here (a 330E and a 333).
Best....and peace to all!
Jean
p.s....I won't start an argument, trying to compare analogs with digitals!
Hey, let's argue!
--
noel jones, aago
athens, tennessee, usa
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