TubaFan wrote:I would love to have an authentic Skinner as well, preferably one of his instruments large enough to have a 16' Diapason in the Great.
Again, Mount Carmel Skinner! What an excellent specification!
Imagine you were attending a wedding for a close relative. You arrive early and the Bride's mom is in a panic as something happened and the organist had to bail. You get tapped on the shoulder to fill in and do the best you can on extreme short notice. Walk up to the choir loft and see an organ with these features:
- Flute & Flute Celeste
- String & String Celeste
- Harp (which adds nicely to Pacabel's Canon)
- Solo Flute 4' (Triangle)
- Clarinet for solo lines
- Carillon (this is a wedding)
- Trumpet En Chamade
- Solo Tuba (cool, you get a choice of party horns)
- Skinner French Horn (the one and only)
- 32' Flue
- 32' Reed
- Great Diapason Chorus
- Swell Diapason Chorus
- Plethora of couplers including a Unison Off for each manual.
Remember this is sight-on-seen. You don't have a massive stop count to try and hunt your way through nor do you have just a few basic stops with one reed and one 16.
So you do great job of filling in at the last moment. You get several well deserved compliments. Admittedly, you can't say
I wish the organ would have had an "X" so I could have done justice to "Y". It is this organ that sold me on Hauptwerk! I played it for an hour in a stereo setup with 3-way speakers. I appreciate the suggestions of other fine unaltered Skinner organs that would be good candidates. According to the link I provided in my original post, MDA already has the raw materials (new multi-release recordings in surround) sitting on a shelf for this one! Hopefully someone at MDA will see this post and offer a response to if or when we will see an updated version. I know of several folks including myself who would be willing to pre-purchase this set to get it going.
Danny B.