<"Since I keep hearing about "properly voiced and installed" electronic
<organs,  I'd like to know why would they be installed in any other way.

Sometimes it's a matter of who it's being installed for.  If no one in the congregation knows anything about the organ, doesn't really know how to play it, and doesn't even really know what an organ should sound like, the "salesperson" is not going to view it as being worth his time or effort to match the instrument to the room, because it won't really be played like a pipe organ, and who's going to know?  A local example:  In my LDS chapel, there's an Allen that's only about 7 or 8 years old.  It sounds terrible.  It has 4 channels fed into a two channel amp and then out to only 2 speakers.  There's certainly not much sense of ensemble with only two sound sources!  The pedal is out of balance with the manuals, which are out of balance with themselves.  The great 8' flute combined with the great 4' flute is actually painful to the ears.  But, since most LDS organists know absolutely nothing about playing the organ (I sure get tired of hearing celestes on nearly all of the hy!
 mns!), who was going to oversee the installation to make sure it was done correctly?  Besides, it only gets treated like an organ on the occasions when I accompany the choir.  I've had occasion to play a old analog Rodgers where the loudest stop on the organ was the 8' bourdon on the Great!  It was even louder than the 8' trumpet!  Fortunately, those old analog Rodgers were easily voiced by turning a few dials in the back.  So, my main point is that many digital instruments are simply dumped in place "as is" unless there's someone there (the organist) to tell the installer how they want/need it to sound.

Paul Slaughter

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