On 5 Mar 2003 at 10:46, Tim Thompson wrote: > No matter what you do with a MIDI performance, the sounds are still > electronically produced, and most importantly, must be electronically > amplified through some sort of speaker system to be heard.
I'm not so certain about that. The room can greatly color the sound to make it more acceptable. Before I moved to NYC, I was organist/choirmaster at a small church in Cleveland that had a very old Hammond organ. The speaker for it was actually in a chamber up high and to the left of the sanctuary (in the Episcopal/Catholic sense, the area where the altar was located, which was a niche in the front wall of the the church). The interior of the church was also plaster and brick, and the result was that the sound that emerged from the chamber really bounced around quite a lot before it got to the congregation. I found a number of registrations (none of the presets were even close to acceptable), mostly by upping the proportion of the upper partials, that sounded quite acceptable musically. Indeed, my church hosted a festival of hymns that was attended by several of my musical friends who were experienced organists and they all remarked on the musicality of the registrations and the overall quality of the sound. This is not to say that a real organ in the same room would not have been vastly superior (even one rank of pipes would have been better), but only to say that the result was actually musically acceptable. As the church was not in the best shape financially, there was no real possibility of getting anything better, so they were fortunate to have a building that made the most of the meager resources. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
