[rodgersorgan] Re: resgitrations
- From: "Keith Stiles" <jkstiles@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 17:40:20 -0400
Let me add to this discussion a little thought about the digital vs. =
pipe
divide. Our church recently purchased a Rodgers 751 digital organ. For =
the
past 5 years I have been playing the church's analog Allen organ made =
about
40 years ago. No, we don't have pipes but I have to say the music that
comes from this digital organ is simply beautiful. So I wouldn't rank =
pipe
organs over digital organs by a long stretch. It is just a different =
form
of an already beautiful musical instrument. The wonderful lady who sold =
us
our organ plays a Rodgers digital connected to real pipes. Is it
beautiful!?! OF course, it is. But, the organ I play can also produce
beautiful music. Would I turn down pipes? Never in a million years. =
But I
also realize that the cost of true pipe organs is prohibitively high for
smaller churches. So I would say the digital organ is bringing a =
facsimile
of the sound of a "true pipe" organ to people who may have never =
experienced
it. That in my book is a true plus!
Keith Stiles
-----Original Message-----
From: rodgersorgan-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rodgersorgan-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of noel jones
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 4:59 PM
To: rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [rodgersorgan] Re: resgitrations
God's Instrument?
Richard, you made me smile!
There have been those that think THE organ is an instrument of the
devil...and I=20
agree...to both.
It can be either.
Now as to whether the Pipe Organ itself is "better" than anything =
else...and
before we get a battle going...
There is no such thing as a pipe organ or a digital organ to people who =
are=20
listening. And if they are listening to it because it IS a pipe...they =
have
their priorities in a strange place...unless it is an academic situation
where=20
the product is not being studied but instead the process.
The pipe organ you are playing now is the best organ in your opinion =
because
it=20
is the best one you are playing.
If you were playing a wonderful, musical digital organ and a poor, tiny, =
underwinded, barely maintained pipe organ in a room with pew cushions,
carpet,=20
heavy curtains and so on...and still felt this poor example of a pipe =
organ
was=20
the best organ, God's Instrument...I'd say you are on the wrong list! =
But
you=20
wouldn't be removed for this belief.
That raises the other bizarre question of when does a pipe organ become =
a
pipe=20
organ! If it has pipes is it a pipe organ? If it has digital and
pipes...are=20
only a few of the stops God's Stops?
What maskes this even more interesting is that there are those who will =
tell
you=20
that the best organ in the world is the one in Atlantic City, the =
largest
organ=20
of the world. Ask them if they have ever heard it.
Do we need to mark the Devil's stops in red and God's in black, like we =
do
reeds=20
and flues?
Or is that why they are those colors in the first place.
Like I said, you made me smile.
Last evening I had to tell a recording engineer that the recording of =
the
organ=20
and choir was not ruined because of a bad woofer on the last note.
It was the 32' Bombard...rattling away like a real pipe. Would it be
devilishh=20
to take away the godliness of it by voicing out the pipe noise?
Some one once said something about God creating Man to give him =
something=20
humorous...I know someone can come up with the correct quote.
But now. Tell us who appointed the pipe organ as God's Instrument. It's =
a
slow=20
Tuesday, wet and rainy here and hot and hazy other places in the =
Northern=20
Hemisphere and I don't even want to think about the weather in the =
Southern
one....
--=20
noel jones, aago
athens, tennessee, usa
423 887-7594
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