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Nov. 23rd, 2003 01:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kayreThis morning a visitor-- a little old lady whom I would bet is herself a church organist-- came up after first service and told me how nice it was "to hear a real organ, not one of those digital things."
I really hated to tell her that it was a "digital thing." Well, the tone generators are analog... but no pipes.
The sanctuary was built to accomodate a pipe organ, so there are what appear to be pipe chambers, and the Allen is truly a fine electronic instrument; I couldn't tell if it was pipes or not, the first time I visited. (The second time was a different organist, and she did things that I knew couldn't be done with pipes.)
There is something different about a pipe organ; playing the Allen for hours on end, I can hear the differences, and I miss my pipes. But truly, the differences are not as glaring and obvious as a lot of organists would like to believe.
Of course, the fact that a couple of keys were sticking in the humidity may have added to the illusion-- it did sound very much like a cranky pipe organ with a few pipes not sounding properly!
I really hated to tell her that it was a "digital thing." Well, the tone generators are analog... but no pipes.
The sanctuary was built to accomodate a pipe organ, so there are what appear to be pipe chambers, and the Allen is truly a fine electronic instrument; I couldn't tell if it was pipes or not, the first time I visited. (The second time was a different organist, and she did things that I knew couldn't be done with pipes.)
There is something different about a pipe organ; playing the Allen for hours on end, I can hear the differences, and I miss my pipes. But truly, the differences are not as glaring and obvious as a lot of organists would like to believe.
Of course, the fact that a couple of keys were sticking in the humidity may have added to the illusion-- it did sound very much like a cranky pipe organ with a few pipes not sounding properly!
