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Larry Hudson wrote:

> Besides raytracing and computers, I've always been particularly 
> fascinated by pipe organs -- both classic/church style and theater style 
> -- and their appropriate music.  (These pipe organ styles are quite 
> different both in their sound and in their construction.)

Ah, theatre organs... have you heard this: 
http://www.hauptwerk.co.uk/AudioDemos/Hauptwerk2-MDAWurliTzer1.mp3 ?

Its from the famous Hauptwerk virtual organ project site... really 
groovy sound, I just imagine Richard Rodgers' famous "Slaughter on Tenth 
Avenue" being played on such an organ...

But my interest in organs currently focuses on 70s analogue electronic 
organs (of which of course quite a lot models were built in theatre 
style, for example the Dutch-made Eminent Grand Theatre series, or large 
Kimball organs such as the famous-infamous Xanadu) and of course classic 
electro-magnetic Hammonds.

B-3s are not exactly affordable these days, but at least I own two 70s 
transistorized analogue organs, a budget-class Eminent and a 
middle-class Yamaha (those Japanese organs are just indestructible and 
doing well even after 30 years!). But I still hope to get myself a 
Technics SX-U90 some day... the "dream ship" of my teenage days!

The small Eminent (a Solina P-240) I even started to model with PoV-Ray...

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

Now playing: Is it Love? (Jon and Vangelis)
Now practising: Mr. Sandman

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