Randall Smith has just reminded me of something: "I just consider the transposer a modern day miracle because it can transpose pipes too. That's a HUGE advantage to me, never having a transposer until the installation of our pipe/digital organ." We don't always get the big picture...Rodgers has done a masterful job of bringing the digital organ into a major position in the church music by making a digital organ software-based, which takes a traditionally mechanical device like a transposer (moving keyboards to the left or right on organs, piano and harpsichords, or using mechanical pistons or physical switches to register pitch changes) and making it a function of software. As a software device it can be controlled not only by the physical knob, but also by the cancel button. Building a console that can totally control pipes gracefully as an everyday function is also a triumph. Being able to set MIDI voices, including voices from other manufacturer's voice modules, on all pistons of the organ is also a triumph. The ability to set the overall range of expression shutter control so that the organ can match pipework that has an older shutter control system of limited levels. Voicing of every note of every stop of every organ built in the church or home that it will be playing in. A few of these advances have been included in other instruments since Rodgers introduced them, which further illustrates Rodgers' role as an innovator, not working to keep up with other builders, but stepping forward to provide leadership. As I have said many times, Rodgers does not appear to base improvements on what others are doing, but rather on what should be done. noel jones, aago athens, tennessee, usa ------------------------------- frog music press rodgers organ users group www.frogmusic.com :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Find Music for the Rodgers PR-300 at www.frogmusic.com :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: To unsubscribe or change mail delivery (digest, vacation) go to our website at www.frogmusic.com/rodgers.html