[rodgersorgan] Re: Why?
- From: "St. Clement's Choir" <stclementschoir@xxxxxxx>
- To: <rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 08:16:35 +1000
A church in UK had its insides completely gutted (Leighton Buzzard) This had
a Norman and Beard as the main instrument and a manual dedicated to the
separate choir organ in the chancel which if I remember correctly was a 15th
or 16th century wonderful instrument. Both were completely destroyed. I
remember that it was a wonderful privaledge to have played the instrument,
especially the chancel organ.
During the rebuilding of this wonderful church, a side aisle was partitioned
off to become the church and the organist installed an organ of his own
creation partly pipe and partly electronic, it did the job, but yes, there
was always the problem of tuning between pipe and electronic, which made me
wonder - why???! On paper a great idea, in practice (my opinion) more
problems that its worth. (As I say I have only heard one, and it would take
me a great deal of convincing to endorce it).
Rod Mather
www.rodeby.net/music
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Wildhirt" <rwildhirt@xxxxxxx>
To: <rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 2:33 AM
Subject: [rodgersorgan] Why?
>
> Hey, organ fans. I have a question that's been bugging me since the early
> 80's about pipe/electronic combination instruments.
>
> WHY? Why would someone want to combine the real thing with electronic
> imitation? I realize that back then, pipes were used because electronics
> were incapable of adequately imitating the sound, but nowadays with
digital
> technology, why would anyone try and merge the two? Just curious.
>
> My experience with a combo instrument left a bad taste in my mouth. It
was
> in a Lutheran church in Reno, Nevada in the spring of '82. It was a
Rodgers
> combo, four ranks of flu pipes. It was cold and snowy outside but very
warm
> inside. Despite attempts with the tuning control, the electronics could
not
> get tuned to the pipes. Anything I played sounded horrible. I ended up
> using only the pipes. Why, with that hassle, would that be a popuplar
> option?
>
>
>
> Richard Wildhirt
> St. Luke's Lutheran
> Federal Way, WA
> Rodgers 940/PR-300S
>
>
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