FelixLowe
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Felix, you couldn't get a Phoenix to sound that bad if you ran over it first with a big truck!!
While Wyvern does employ Phoenix technology for some of their high end organs, this organ is definitely NOT one of them! This one sounds like road-kill.
The organ in the video has to be a pretty old electronik-sounding analog organ. Listen to the "tuning" on this thing. It only has two sets of tuning oscillators for the entire organ! That's only 192 pitch sources compared to modern organs where each note of each stop is independently tuned, yielding over 4,000 pitches.
Just to refresh your memory, this is what a Phoenix sounds like:
http://www.organ.dnet.co.uk/phoenix/messiaentransports.mp3
Wyvern uses Phoenix technology? How did you know about that? Well, the two may be different. But they sound pretty close in terms of voicing. I wasn't talking about the technical aspect of tonal production, but just the voicing. At least I can tell Wyvern is not Rodgers in terms of sounding British as a British-made instrument. All I was trying to say is that Rodgers is one school, and Wyvern and Phoenix are another school within the British organ building tradition.
The recording of the Wyvern clip says the clip was made in 2009; I don't know when the organ was made -- it doesn't say. But you've got to be kidding to say the Wyvern in the clip is not digital. There are some analogue instruments made in the 70s featured on Youtube. If you say this one is analogue, you probably haven't heard what a real analogue instrument sounded like in those days.
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