great series Peirce! I had a look at their extensive homepage...I learned a few things since my first comment here but I decided to leave the stupid remarks intact for your amusement! :)
it looks very simple indeed....I am used to massive pipe organs so that is why this one seems to tiny I guess. ========================================== This will sound very much like not just one, but five different large pipe organs. It digitally reproduces the sound and ambiance of the real thing. I know one is a famous English Cathedral organ and others emulate a couple of European organs.
Nice job Peirce. This will be good for the church archives. What does such an instrument cost? Does it have to be custom built for each particular church? ============================================= This three-manual model costs about $70.000. A new, comparable pipe organ would be about ten times that, ranging from $650,000 to $1,000,000. A church over in Middletown, CT, is looking to have their pipe organ renovated at a cost of about $350,000. Many of the parts must be rebuilt. =================== Understandable. All those pipes have to be hand tuned.
Interesting......why the stops on an electric organ? I thought those were only on wind-aided pipe instruments. Perhaps they just "look" like stops but are, in effect, electric switches. Hey......is that a church mouse I see? lol ============================================== This Allan Organ is designed to simulate 5 different pipe organs plus many other voices. For an experienced organist, having the manuals and stops just like the pipe organs makes it easy.
The sound on this electronic organ is so good that you can even hear the whosh of air that comes before a pipe note.
Church mouse? I guess so in this case. The Allen Organ rep attached his laptop computer to the console to analyze the sound responses and run some test routines.
I have a friend who's an organist. Watching him work is amazing. He plays the melody with his right hand, the counter-melody with the left and the entire base line with his feet. All that AND able to hold a conversation with me at the same time. Incredible. I can barely walk and chew gum simultaneously.
Quite simple.....compared to a pipe organ. They have to build those on site I guess. ============================================== No, the console was completely assembled and populated at the factory..
Seems to me that the lift should be 90 degrees to the left to facilitate the removal. ============================================= There was not enough room to safely turn the lift. However, it could not be lowered because of the balcony rail. See pictures 12181 through 12185 for their solution.
Bull work. Glad I don't have to do that anymore. One of the benefits of getting old is that no one questions why you don't do such heavy thing yourself. I love it.
BIG speakers.....this shot gives a better perspective as to their size. ============================================ Eight of these make up the main speaker banks--two banks of four each placed on the right and left sides of the sound chamber.
Remembering that this unisphere remains standing, I recall that the hemisphere at the 60's worlds fair in Montreal remained there for many years. Went back and photo'd it, but since then, it was destroyed. ron
Curious about pervious pic (which I could not open the "comment" offer). While most of your pics are still color correct, that one and a few others have appparently lost some of the sharpness. So far, most of my old pics have held up, going back to 1950, and in our historical society, we have a 1938 or 39 Kodachrome still not bad) Many of my early Ektachrome went sepia and useless, but Kodak assured me that the problem has been corrected. ron (and I enjoyed looking at your view of the worlds fair. Some day I may get to copying some of my 35,000 slides! I have a HP slide copier, but can't use it with current Windows programs!) =========================================== This is picture number 46. Are you referring to number 45 as the previous picture? I had no trouble opening the comment box. All I did was click on the comment button, then scroll down a bit.
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