-=> Everett Hertenstein said to Greg Mayman
 -=> about "POWER SUPPLY" on 01-30-04  17:15.....

 EH> For my money, the purists can have the trackers.  I can't think of any
 EH> piece of organ music that would benefit from a slower opening of the
 EH> pipe valve.  Nor am I aware of any music where the composer had
 EH> indicated that the valve should be opened slowly. The idea is to get it
 EH> open and the pipe playing. 

If the pallet opens too quickly it causes turbulence in the air
and the pipe can "chiff" as it starts to speak. But that is
another matter.

As I understand it, it's really not a matter of whether the
pallet opens the "right" way or not, it is whether it opens the
way the player wants it to.

IOW if he presses the key slowly he wants the pallet to open
slowly and if he slams the key down he wants it to open fast.

What benefits there might be I do not know. All I do know is that
the "purists" want to be in 100% control of the thing.

 EH> The Atlanta Fox Moeller organ, electropneumatic, is in such a large
 EH> auditorium that there is a half-second delay between key press and the
 EH> time the sound reaches the organist's ear.  You can't wait to hear
 EH> what's happening, you play the music and ignore the sound.  This is
 EH> really disconcerting for me, but a good, prefessional organist can
 EH> manage it OK. 

And naturally the resident organist would have to be able to if
he wanted to keep his job 

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