Recently, I opined about the electronic organ. Today, I would like to discuss a different instrument that, in the past, filled the niche that electronic organs fill today. Your great-grandmother may have had a small one in her living room. It often had a hutch, complete with beveled mirror. It […]
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I once was talking with an organbuilder about an instrument I had recently played that had been built by a the ___ Organ Company. As I recall, I said something to the effect that I really liked the flutes and strings on this organ, but wasn’t wild about the principals. His reply to […]
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Most electronic organs sound like the taste of yesterday’s bath water. While you’re wrapping your mind around this incongruous observation, I will plunge ahead. Electronic voice generation (let’s call it EVG, to save me some extra typing), whether for individual deep pedal notes, or for entire stops, or for entire organs, is here to stay. […]
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