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Viscount Organs - suitable for a large church?

MarkFL

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Hi, if anyone has experience with a Viscount Organ in a church I'd love to hear about your experience. Did it meet your expectation? What was the sound quality like? I've played digital organs in a showroom where you would expect the setup to be perfect but is this easy to recreate in an old dusty church? Tanks for your comments in advance.
 

mutzik

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Hi,

it depends not too much on the organ itself, but most amplifiers and speakers have to be right setup
 

Krummhorn

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There is only one instance of a Viscount organ that I've heard in a local church. Sound wise, it was horrible ... about one step above a Hammond ... at least to my ears. Way to sterile of a sound, not pipe like at all without any character of wind.

I suspect that it was a really poor installation. The nave was long and very narrow ... "A" frame roof, and on a scale of 1 to 10 for acoustics, that building rated a minus 35 ... the sound (figuratively) stopped well before the player took their hands off the keyboard.

Speaker placement, and the chambers they are located in if available, contribute greatly to the overall sound capabilities of any instrument. That organ could most likely be improved upon, if only they would spend the money to re-install it and make it right. I suspect that the Viscount company did not perform the installation; rather dome self proclaimed 'expert' within the congregation did that task, and not at all to well, I'm afraid ... but they seem happy with it.

Anyway, that was my one and only experience with that brand of organ. I'm not putting the company down, mind you, as I'm quite certain that they have the cability of producing a very fine instrument as do other manufacturers. I'm rather partial to Allen, having been a salesperson and later a technician a number of years ago.

Kh :cool:
 
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