another query reply

[pianoman]

Hi Ted,
In the organ world they are.  Big names are Allen, Rodgers, and even the
Wicks pipe organ company has produced a multi- hundreds rank digital
pipeless organ with 5 keyboards including 2-64' stops for a church in
California using 409 speakers.  The pipe organ purists of course hate
these.
James Grebe
R.P.T. of the P.T.G. from St. Louis
pianoman@inlink.com
"Success is not a goal, rather it is a way of life".

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> From: Ted Simmons <ted@palmnet.net>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: another query
> Date: Friday, February 13, 1998 6:13 AM
> 
> Les,
>         I wonder why it isn't called a digital organ instead of a digital
piano?
> 
> Ted Simmons
> 
> 
> >A high-end digital will not only have the ability to reproduce the
sounds
> >of many different instrument, but will, in fact, give you a choice of
> >HUNDREDS of different sounds, which you can then combine in an infinite
> >variety of ways.
>