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The Regal Chorus: a new offering from Organ Expressions
Not your typical Hauptwerk organ. The Regal Chorus is an addition for an existing organ. Whether you play an analog, digital or pipe instrument, you can add The Regal Chorus (if your console provides a MIDI output.) The Regal Chorus adds to an existing instrument to provide 36 more ranks of reed voices and percussions to give more color to your music.
The Motivation:
We were getting several requests from various organists, some Hauptwerk users and other who were yet to experience the virtual organ world, who wanted to add ranks to their existing service instruments in churches, but didn't want to spend the money necessary to acquire one of the all-in-one voices in a box devices. They didn't want the whole organ, just more options for their existing organs. Knowing that most service instruments would already have diapasons, flutes and strings but would often lack variety or boldness in the options for reeds, we began to develop the Regal Chorus.
The Approach:
Since Organ Expressions is focused on capturing the middle American service organs for Hauptwerk, we began with our existing inventory of reed ranks. We determined that many of these voices had good promise, but more colors were needed. So we began a three year search for reed voices that would add various hues to our collection. We did not create a spreadsheet of categories, but rather collected the ranks that had the most musical character, (which is a much slower approach.) More choices were rejected than were accepted.
The Builders:
Nine different American builders were used to create the Regal Chorus. These includes the refined voices of a 1969 Schantz, the sweet voices of a 1922 Kilgen and Sons, the proud voices of a 1949 Moller, the mellow voices of a 1982 Reuter, the brash voices of a 1957 Wicks, the theatrical voices of a 1925 Robert Morton, the gentle voices of a 1929 Hinners and the robust voices of a 1935 Aeolian Skinner. Of these nine companies only three are still in operation, but each had their own character or "take" on these "colors". Although they are all cousins in the reed family, they are very much individuals that speak to the music's options with an honest clarity and vibrancy.
REGAL CHORUS is available as a download, via DVDrom or USB jumpdrive.
The Regal Chorus: a new offering from Organ Expressions
Not your typical Hauptwerk organ. The Regal Chorus is an addition for an existing organ. Whether you play an analog, digital or pipe instrument, you can add The Regal Chorus (if your console provides a MIDI output.) The Regal Chorus adds to an existing instrument to provide 36 more ranks of reed voices and percussions to give more color to your music.
The Motivation:
We were getting several requests from various organists, some Hauptwerk users and other who were yet to experience the virtual organ world, who wanted to add ranks to their existing service instruments in churches, but didn't want to spend the money necessary to acquire one of the all-in-one voices in a box devices. They didn't want the whole organ, just more options for their existing organs. Knowing that most service instruments would already have diapasons, flutes and strings but would often lack variety or boldness in the options for reeds, we began to develop the Regal Chorus.
The Approach:
Since Organ Expressions is focused on capturing the middle American service organs for Hauptwerk, we began with our existing inventory of reed ranks. We determined that many of these voices had good promise, but more colors were needed. So we began a three year search for reed voices that would add various hues to our collection. We did not create a spreadsheet of categories, but rather collected the ranks that had the most musical character, (which is a much slower approach.) More choices were rejected than were accepted.
The Builders:
Nine different American builders were used to create the Regal Chorus. These includes the refined voices of a 1969 Schantz, the sweet voices of a 1922 Kilgen and Sons, the proud voices of a 1949 Moller, the mellow voices of a 1982 Reuter, the brash voices of a 1957 Wicks, the theatrical voices of a 1925 Robert Morton, the gentle voices of a 1929 Hinners and the robust voices of a 1935 Aeolian Skinner. Of these nine companies only three are still in operation, but each had their own character or "take" on these "colors". Although they are all cousins in the reed family, they are very much individuals that speak to the music's options with an honest clarity and vibrancy.
REGAL CHORUS is available as a download, via DVDrom or USB jumpdrive.