When the Organist Is Away
With a little ingenious wiring, the Tempe Seventh-day Adventist Church in Arizona enjoys organ music even when the organist is out of town. "We were remodeling the church," says Pastor Ervin K. Thomson, "and so I took the opportunity to install a direct line from the organ" (an Allen Digital Computer model) "to the PA console. I also put in a remote control near the pulpit to govern the reel-to-reel tape recorder." The result: organ music can be recorded with great fidelity and replayed at will through the organ speaker system. Thomson, an organist himself, tells what happened one weekend when the church organist called in sick and no substitute could be found. "I simply went to the church the night before and recorded the entire service—prelude, congregational hymns, offertory, postlude. The next morning I was able to provide everything at the proper time with just a flip of the switch as I led the service." Naturally, some worshipers were surprised to hear music with no one at the console. But it was certainly better than an organless service. "I can think of other ways to use the system," Thomson adds. "Organists leaving for vacation could prerecord services to be used while they're gone. They could also provide tapes to small churches that lack qualified organists."
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