> > From: Adlai Waksman <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: RE:  synth players and registration
> >
> > ...synths don't offer the same possibilities for registration
> > and tonal expression during a piece.
>
>           No, not the same; but comparable -- inferior in some ways,
>           but superior in others.

Remember to HONOR your grandparents!!!!

>
> > On a synthesizer you simply don't have the organist's fine control of
> > registration, at the level of divisions, couplers, and individual stops
> > that ADD to the particular type and nuance of "organ sound".  Punching
> > up a new patch on a synthesizer TOTALLY REPLACES the previous sound.
> > Hardly amenable to "fluid", expressive organ registration.
>
>           True, on a synth one can't just pull a knob and add a 2'
>           flute; however, one *can* reserve an oscillator for that 2'
>           flute, and bring it in *gradually* using a pedal, slider, or
>           modulation wheel.  This provides *more* control over that
>           stop -- in performance time -- than is possible on a
>           traditional organ.

synth's at this time PREVENT any spontaneous creativity in sound change
immediate access to stuff is not really there it always seems to be
'buried' deep in layers of menu's.  The old synths with control knobs
on the front panel are more to my personal liking.. the sound for
certains things many not be as 'realistic' but then again the analogue/front
knobs synths aren't the musical chameleons like the 'sampled' stuff..
Plastic sounds to my ears.. and they are always cutting out harmonics
to save memory saying that people cannot hear the difference..
POOP on that idea..  I was at a carrillon manufacturer about 3 years ago and the
 y were working on a digital product..  The engineers were shock and horrified
when I told them what harmoics they had removed from their sampled bell sounds.

There are some of us out here that can hear the difference in a
baldwin and steinway pianos on radio broadcasts..Not e veryone is cursed
with such stuff.. It just as bad as having perfect pitch...
It's better to be totally stupid.
It's better to be ignorant and enjoy the music for music's sake.
It really pisses me off when I hear the NY Philharmonic recordings with
that D****d ELECTRIC appliance!!!

WHAT CLASSICAL PIANIST USES a piano with non-acoustic tone sources.
and would you feel cheated if you went to hear V. Horowitz concert
and he was playing a 'plug-in piano' like a Fender Rhodes 88 ??

Well, later guys...

Kevin Douglas Chun
The Curtis Organ Restoration Society/ U of Penna
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