Mon Mar 13, 2017 9:45 am
I'm wondering if it's correct for the Swell stops on the included St. Anne organ to be a LOT softer than the Great stops. The swell shutter pedal moves open and closed over its full range and properly impacts swell volume. But even with it wide open, the imbalance is huge. Stops that should be comparable are profoundly different in volume on the two manuals. My wife frequently plays works that have a single-line melody in the swell against a chord-like accompaniment in the great. If she's got anything more than a tiny registration in the great, she has to use a huge registration in the swell, much larger than the sweet solo stop she'd like, to have the melody come out over the loud great. I 'fixed' this by revoicing all swell stops, increasing their volume by about 10 db. It's fine now, but it seems unusual that I would have to take such extreme measures. Is the organ just designed this way, or am I perhaps missing something? Thanks!
