voet wrote:I own all three E. M. Skinner sample sets from Evensong and my favorite is the 3 manual instrument in St. Mark's, in Glendale, California. I thought I would like the 4 manual Skinner at Immanuel Presbyterian better, but it does not sound as good, in my opinion. The St. Mark's instrument has nearly all of the E. M. Skinner trademark features and costst $150 USD less.
Bill
Bill,
Just wondering if you'd be willing to expand a bit on the sound of the St. Mark's instrument and in what way you like it better? I've listened to the demos and it's a nice sounding instrument, but I'm curious as to in what way you like it better than the other Evensong Skinner offerings. Is it the acoustic, is it more clear sounding, more realistic sounding, or?
As for what to recommend...... I don't own a bunch of instruments, but I highly recommend the Armley Schulze and is the one I'm the most thankful for purchasing. It is by far my go to instrument and I find I use it 90% of the time over the others I have. Not that the others are worse or poorer sounding, it's just that the Armley Schulze kind of gives me everything I'm looking for in a well balanced and good sounding set. As I've said before, it's a great 'church' organ. The other thing I appreciate about it is it's a surround set with 2 perspectives of the front channels and depending on how you load it you can either use each perspective by themselves, or use them together and adjust things to your liking. AND, it doesn't require 'unobtanium' amounts of memory.
Marc