WELCOME TO A NEW MEMBER OF ST. JOHN'S
The new organ, with its digital and MIDI technology, allows for multiple voices and effects, thus allowing the organist to create various performance or musical styles.
The new organ also incorporates software technology, as found on computers. This will allow each organist to not only store their individual choices for sounds, but can also
At the present time our new instrument will incorporate only the pipes in the Great manual (the pipes on the right side of the organ loft, as you face it). The other pipes will
Ron and Mary Smisek
instrument. Built to American Guild of Organists standards, model #950 has three manuals, or keyboards, a full sized pedal board, and lighted stop tabs and piston push
buttons. The console is a walnut color, and is slightly larger and taller than the one it replaces. Before it came to St. John's it was involved in a week of concerts at
Orchestra Hall. The music heard was Beethoven's Missa Solemnis.
It also allows the organ to make the various wind effects heard on pipe instruments. Each note of every stop can be tuned by itself, and the entire electronic portion can be
tuned to the existing pipes. This and a "re-tuning" ability of the organ allow for coordination between the two parts of the instrument (pipe and electronic).
re-create their actual playing styles. All such information can be stored on regular computer floppy disks. For all interested, the new organ, as well as other interesting
information, can be viewed on the Internet at www.rodgerscorp.com.
remain in place, but will remain silent for now. In the years to come plans call for the complete restoration of the existing pipe portion of the organ, and their connection to the
new instrument. This will produce a most wonderful and unique instrument that will praise God for years to come, and be a wonderful part of our parish.
