sonar11 wrote:1961TC4ME wrote:I listened to audio examples of both the Skinner and Rosales over the lunch hour today and I like both but there are some definite differences. Both have great detail to their sound, I heard some nice chiff from some of the stops on the Skinner which I really like, both have sweet strings, the Rosales has more powerful reeds and so on. To use an analogy, the Rosales strikes me more as the modern day fine tuned high winding hyper sports car sound with the V-12 engine, the Skinner more the good old pleasing sound of a finely tuned but older school V 8 from the good old days.
You mentioned being able to afford either so why not get both?
Always nice to have both in the garage and be able to decide which one you want to drive!
Marc
I find they're too similar to each other to get both. My next sample after this one will be more baroque.
Well, there you go, you've kind of answered your own question. I had a similar dilemma when trying to choose between St. Max and St. Michael, both quite similar and with the required stops that would be needed for what I wanted to do, except for the fact that the St. Max offered more stops which I looked at as an added bonus. So, I also figured there's no reason to have both and I went with the larger instrument.
Marc