Re: What's a "STRAIGHT" organ??

[<MOStec@aol.com>]

In a message dated 97-02-01 17:24:56 EST, you write:

<<      Ok, I'm likely way off base, but I'm gonna ask anyway: does this mean
that
 if you're playing a chord (with most or all of the drawbars on) and
 frequency X is drawbar Z of middle C, but drawbar Y of another note in the
 chord, it will make frequency X twice as loud?
  >>


Here's what it means.

If you pull the 1st drawbar on each manual and play middle "C" on the upper
manual and then play middle "C" on the lower you'll hear the note get louder.

On a pipe organ this is not so.

on a pipe organ you may see "8' Flute" on the Swell and "8' Stopped Diapason"
on the Great.  But on some organs these are the SAME pipes.  So, if you
played middle "C" on the Swell and then middle "C" on the Great, you'd here
NO change.

This section is obviously then to disuade the "Pipe Organ" reader from
believing that the singe tone source of the Hammond is the same as the (Much
derided by many "purists" in the pipe organ world) unified organ, which is
the type of organ I cited above.

Hope this clears it up.