It is time to become an Organist!

Playing the organ is one of the most powerful experiences a musician can have. Our education department teaches classical organ and offers workshops providing organists with access to the best clinicians, organ playing techniques, current music styles, music to review and purchase and to discuss concerns of the time.

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There is nothing like being an organist!

More Keys

More Stops

More Pedals

More Buttons

More Power

More Cockpit controls

.....than any other instrumentalist!

Over the years, Allen has expanded their library of fine pipe organ voices sampled from organs all over the world and instruments built by the Masters of the day. Allen today specializes in providing organs that actually contain authentic pipe voice samples of a given period of organ building. The organ as we know it was universally recognized starting in the Baroque period, mainly because the works of J. S. Bach. Typical organ building periods are as follows:

1. Baroque or Neo-Baroque Organs

2. Romantic Organs

3. English Cathedral Organs

4. American Classic Organs

5. Orchestral Organs (a more modern approach to organ building)

Certain builders played a predominant role in the history of organ building within these periods. Allen is honored to provide instruments in the stylel of the German builder Arp Schntizer, French builder Cavaille-Coll, and American organs by Skinner. There a variety of suites on each Quantum organ allowing organists to perform in the style of the composer using actual sounds from that period. Try it! The music even sounds better when played with sounds the composer heard!

If you are playing an Allen organ with an alternate suite window on the stop rail (as shown at right), you may easily select your suite by using the console controller (left drawer or key desk). Enter the CC (Console Controller) window shown as Quad Suite or Stop Library ~Press the up/down arrow buttons until the desired suite is shown in the window ~ press and hold the SET piston under the lower keyboard and then press and release the MEMORY button on the CC. Within seconds, the new suite will load (display flashes) replacing the old sounds. Press and hold SET then press CANCEL to return to the default screen. The new suite is then ready to play.

To review how you get to different CC windows, press and hold the SET button and press the R piston to step through different windows. If the CC has an ENTER button on the bottom row, then simply press it to enter the program mode and select windows by the back/forward buttons. Make selections within the window by using the up/down arrow buttons. To Exit, just press the Exit button OR press and hold the SET button, then press the CANCEL piston. You will learn quickly!

Need help while at the console? Call us from your console telephone (OK, your cell phone) and we will walk you through it! One of us should be available almost anytime.

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