In this, the first and foremost entry to this blog, about the effort to build the fineness of sound, the best digital pipe organ possible, and to do this at a reasonable cost, affordable by most churches and many organists. This is what Phoenix Organs of North America has done. There are a couple of other custom digital organ companies that have pursued the "fineness of sound", but have not been able to manage the "affordable by most" part. In fact they have managed to build what virtually no one, and no church can afford.
Phoenix Organs NA has the capability to build a ridiculously expensive digital organ just as fine, and just as expensive, and just as oddly supercilious as anyone else. Heck throw me 3/4 of a million dollars and just see what you get! But, knowing that these huge examples of digital excess are the exception to the reality of 99.99% of all churches, it seems a misplacement of effort to put just shy of a million bucks into a digital organ.... if a church has that kind of money burning up their pockets, then buy some pipes for heaven's sake! Or better yet, buy a broke third-world county to send some missionaries to, and still have enough money left over to buy some really nice digital-wind in a new custom Phoenix Organ.
 | Twelve Toccatas For Organ Arranged by Gordon Young. For Organ. Sacred. Level: (Advanced). Print Music Collection (Organ Book). Published by Hope Publishing Company. (1946) See more info... |
