Respectfully, in response to your questions about Galanti support here and elsewhere in the forum, I believe you're stuck with whatever their website gives you as options. Since Generalmusic in Italy...

Schoenstein is probably the closest modern American builder to the ideals of Skinner when it comes to the symphonic organ concept, but they do have their own ideas and approach which is somewhat...

It really could be anything. I have only ever seen that name as a hybrid compound stop like a Cornet but with the flat seventh added at some octave. It might be a straight reed rank, but I would...

Don't know if it's the biggest, but there's a four-manual, 81-rank (and I do mean 81 separate sets of tone generators) AOB from 1988 installed in Our Lady Queen Of Martyrs in Queens. I think that's...

Speaking of the Fanwood Pres Rodgers, which is nearly in my backyard, here's Virgil Fox playing it in I believe 1971:
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One of the Harrison Trompettes from St. Thomas is now in the Harrison organ at St. Mary The Virgin.

I think one reason a number of organ builders make their own speakers is because, frankly, the component costs are relatively low, and the manufacturing/build process is pretty easy. Thus, they can...

Organ speakers really aren't all that specialized. In fact some of the "specialized" designs are actually pretty bad from an acoustical physics standpoint- well-intentioned, but built by people with...

I revoiced a 1980's analog Rodgers in a church in NYC a bunch of years back, and agree that the quality of initial installation and finishing left a lot to be desired, and have found this to be true...

There's very little probability that Rodgers had anything to do with M&O, and to understand this, you need a little bit of insight into the corporate culture and workings of Roland, which in its...

Is anyone following the progress of the installation of Taylor & Boody's Opus 65 in Grace Episcopal Church in Manhattan? It's a similar style organ (English romantic, mechanical action, from a...

I experienced that on one Chronicler I we installed back in 1993, and it was a bear to track down because it was intermittent. It's definitely not the speakers. It is either one of the tone generator...

It may honestly take the organ being silenced by its troubles, or some truly public and glaring failures (like Virgil Fox used to get the Hook & Hastings replaced at Riverside back in the day) to...

Doucaine, you would seem to know the answer to this because you have played the St. Thomas organ much more recently: can you give more details on the current mechanical condition of the organ? I've...

If the Hook & Hastings is in the rear gallery, there's an excellent chance that the Rodgers is a temporary or permanent chancel organ for accompaniment of choirs or soloists- especially in an event...

I heard a couple Savilles and grew up playing an AOB every weekend as a kid at church. We didn't really have tuning issues with the AOB, so I guess that was more a Saville issue. It needed periodic...

I haven't played it since 1996, so I would have no way of knowing its recent playability issues. But that's not the point. The point is how it sounds and how it appears to function to the average...

I know which institution you are referencing, and as VAPipeorgantuner says, there are a LOT of overhead and infrastructure costs that the average person doesn't necessarily consider as part of the...

One last detail I forgot: this Allen has one of Allen's Virtual Acoustic speaker systems, so it comes with about 6 small speakers designed to be placed around the perimeter of the room to allow the...

My company installed new video projection in a church with an historic building dating from 1869. It had an Allen R-380 installed, which is a large Renaissance 3-manual dating from 2001. I played it...

A 950 is a PDI organ. As far as I remember, it takes 8 channels max, and yes, they would get doubled if there was a need or desire for more speakers.

That's definitely a Praeludium II, although a very early one. I had one with warping in the phenolic circuit boards, but it still worked. I have some worries with yours because the warped board is...

There should be a slide switch underneath near the MIDI jacks or on the opposite site that reverses the manuals.

They're below the keyboards on little plastic panels nestled up against the top of the vertical expression/toe stud/speaker panel. I seem to remember that they're on the one on the left, but I could...

It probably is a better analogy to liken the MDS-Expander to a card reader successor. It's just nutty that the cost was more than that of the Archive modules.