service organist question

[Guest]

What is the smallest and/or oldest electronic organ you have ever seen used during a service with an AGO pedalboard?

[jbird604]

Re: service organist question



The oldest one around here that is still used weekly in a service is a Conn model 800 from the 1950's.</P>


Of course there are older organs, Hammond B and C models, and spinets,in particular, that are in regular usage, but they're not AGO.</P>


The Conn 800 was quite a tour de force in electronics for its day, with separate generators for the two manuals, each one producing numerous stops created by formant circuitry. Each manual had a bushel basket of couplers. But all stops are 8' pitch. You get other pitches only by using the couplers, intra- and inter-manual.</P>


Don't remember about the pedals. Probably an independent one-note-at-a-timegenerator of some sort at 16', then couplers to bring down the manual stops.</P>


All tube circuitry, of course.</P>


John</P>

[james]

Re: service organist question

To answer this question, I would say one with an AGO pedalboard was a Wurlitzer ES organ, model 50 used in the local Catholic church. It was replaced in 1978 with a Saville Organ, and in the early 90's with a Reuter Pipe Organ of six ranks.

[Guest]

Re: service organist question

Some good damn awful 1960's Livingstone organ in my first organist post. I was just horribile. No subtle stops, just noise, noise, noise...and that was just the way I was playing it! [H]