02-02-2023, 11:41 AM
So do I, however the majority of owners of electronic organs just want to play music on the most effective and suitable instrument for their style. If one is going to invest effort in playing, does one want the results of that effort compromised by using an inferior method of tone formation? Hammonds are the odd one out here: They have a very distinctive character that is recognised as itself, not as an imitation of something else which was the original intention 88 years ago. Today, one owns a Hammond to play the Hammond, not to imitate a pipe organ.
But classical-style and theatre-style electronics are still mainly regarded as the imitations of pipe organs as they set out to be, for which purposes a better imitation is a better organ. The Electrone evokes the wrong kind of history; not the glorious rich sound of the cinema organ nor the majesty of the cathedral organ, but the early, crude, not entirely successful attempts to imitate them. Enthusiasts of that aspect of the history are few and far between. It's like watching snooker on a 14" monochrome TV - vintage TV fans would do that but snooker fans would not.
But classical-style and theatre-style electronics are still mainly regarded as the imitations of pipe organs as they set out to be, for which purposes a better imitation is a better organ. The Electrone evokes the wrong kind of history; not the glorious rich sound of the cinema organ nor the majesty of the cathedral organ, but the early, crude, not entirely successful attempts to imitate them. Enthusiasts of that aspect of the history are few and far between. It's like watching snooker on a 14" monochrome TV - vintage TV fans would do that but snooker fans would not.
