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  • Johnson Dolce Cornet III Mixture - What to expect!

    Does anyone care to venture a guess as to what I might expect a Johnson Dolce Cornet III mixure, 3 1/2" pressure to typically sound like? See Atlantic City Pipe Organ Co. http://home.comcast.net/~acorgan/johnson.html Suitable on a classical swell division? Thanks -

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    Itdepends on what you mean by "classical" Swell.




    For most modern American organs, I don't think you wouldwant a tierce mixture; the exceptions might be:



    • If you play a lot of German music of the Romantic era

    • If you like the sound of late 19th-century/early 20th-centuryAmerican organs

    • If you already have a quint mixture in the Swell
    • [/list]


      Contrary to thebold, flutey Cornet,a Dolce Cornet usually has small, string-scale pipes. Dolce Cornets sound quite appropriate in period instruments, but area bit of an acquired taste.

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      Thanks!

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        We had one on our church organ (installed in 1899) that was useless for any reasonable purpose, Yes, it sounded like a Cornet, but was so soft that it was overpowered by any other stop on the organ except the Aeoline, and I replaced it with a nice Scharf mixture, and used the pipes of the Cornet elsewhere after reworking them to get some usable volume (the Aeoline was replaced also).




        If you decide toget it, youmay want to bring the volume up, if it is like the typical Dolce Cornet on several organs around here.

        Mike

        My home organ is a Theatre III with an MDS II MIDI Expander.

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          Although Dolce Cornets may be an acquired taste to modern ears I would not go so far as to advocate their removal from period instruments! Nor would I recommend revoicing such old stops, lest the process be irreversible. If necessary it is better to add to an old instrument - change nothing and remove nothing.




          Rather than bending an old instrument to the whims of current fashion, I find it much better to learn how to playaccording tothe instrument - I learn something, and the instrument is preserved intact.




          I haveplayed old Hooks, etc. and findthe Dolce Cornets to be quite lovely and characterful when used in context.

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            l can appreciate that you like to keep period instruments as they were, but our organ had been modified once, maybe twice, since it was installed. It may have been a fairly fine instrument when put in, but the modifications left something to be desired. Instead of restoring it, as another church in our area did with theirs, I updated it with some newer pipes, and revoiced much of the existing pipework, much of whichprobably was not original anyhow, and if original certainly did not have the original voicing, but was voiced more in the style of the 1930's-thick, flute-like diapasons, a viole d'orchestra in the choir that sounded like it had come straight from a theatre organ, quite a bit of unification, etc. Most of the Great was enclosed with the Choir, and spoke sideways into the choir loft instead of directly into the auditorium.




            Several local organists, including one with a doctorate who teaches at a local college,have comment on the much improved sound of the organ, and the congregation certain appreciates it. It is not spectacular, by any means, but certainly is now more serviceable for a Baptist congregation to sing with.


            Mike

            My home organ is a Theatre III with an MDS II MIDI Expander.

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