[rodgersorgan] Re: Good organs, badly installed.
- From: <dallas_wood1@xxxxxxx>
- To: <rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:59:55 -0400
Hello everyone,
I just wanted to comment quickly that i agree have seen both good and bad
installations regarding all pipe, all digital, and combinations of the two..
I am currently re-building an instrument that will incorporate digital.
There are several reasons for going partially digital but the main point of
this e-mail is that one has to realize the importance of "finishing" an
instrument. Not just installing it physically and tuned and walk away. At
least half of the time i have allotted to this project is devoted entirely to
tonal finishing. Great care is being taken to ensure that the correct samples
are matched with the period, make and voicing characteristics of the pipe work
to be used. While this takes much patience and trial and error in many
circumstances do to acoustical and above mentioned circumstances, it must be
remembered that every single organ is built for a specific purpose and each one
"used" to be custom built for their intended location and must "finished" to
meet that goal. Anything less than that intention or objective results in a
failed installation. Today's technology allows for a miriad of solutions to
practically any challenge all the way from pipe-work availability to sound
systems and acoustical solutions and digital rank choices so if the above goals
are followed, the result should not have be a bad installation.
Best Regards,
Al
----- Original Message -----
From: noel jones
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 2:57 PM
To: rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [rodgersorgan] Good organs, badly installed.
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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