As a long-time organ player I've always had one in the corner of our living room; now a mid-1960's 2 manual Allen theater that finally became hopelessly unreliable, now sitting there gutted of its switching and tone generation, awaiting a transplant. In an adjacent corner is a nice Baldwin model R grand that I bought for the kids that they enjoyed a lot growing up. The opposite corners each contain a Leslie 122.
A bunch of years ago I rose to the occasion when our small church group needed someone to play for the occasional funeral, wedding and other service. Since the variety and condition of instruments in the various places ranged to such an extent, I finally bought a Roland-Rogers W-50 with sampled pipe organ sounds, which though obsolete, I still have. It sounds great, but has always been difficult to play because of limited polyphony.
Now with age and extensive health problems I've done an in-depth review of my many interests and decided to focus on music as one that can be continued into old age. I want to up-grade the Allen, perhaps with new keyboards and Hauptwerk, but in a modular fashion so that should health/age issues dictate moving into a smaller place with no place for a large organ console, a stack of 2 or 3 controller keyboards could be removed from the Allen and placed on a small table along with a lap top.
One option might be to base this on one of the dual manual combo organs such as made by Nord or Suzuki Hammond. I'm sure I'm not treading fresh ground, but believe there are some on this forum who have good advice.
Loren
A bunch of years ago I rose to the occasion when our small church group needed someone to play for the occasional funeral, wedding and other service. Since the variety and condition of instruments in the various places ranged to such an extent, I finally bought a Roland-Rogers W-50 with sampled pipe organ sounds, which though obsolete, I still have. It sounds great, but has always been difficult to play because of limited polyphony.
Now with age and extensive health problems I've done an in-depth review of my many interests and decided to focus on music as one that can be continued into old age. I want to up-grade the Allen, perhaps with new keyboards and Hauptwerk, but in a modular fashion so that should health/age issues dictate moving into a smaller place with no place for a large organ console, a stack of 2 or 3 controller keyboards could be removed from the Allen and placed on a small table along with a lap top.
One option might be to base this on one of the dual manual combo organs such as made by Nord or Suzuki Hammond. I'm sure I'm not treading fresh ground, but believe there are some on this forum who have good advice.
Loren