*Demonstration of Custom Multi-Waveform Organ*
Searle Wright -- Narrator
Robert Read -- Organist
This recording was made in four different locations to provide a showcase for the Baldwin Custom Multi-Waveform Organ in various acoustical enviroments. The four churches selected are deliberately very different, ranging from the very reverberant church at St. Pius to Concordia Lutheran, a church with very little reverberation.
Each Multi-Waveform installation is completely customized for it's location. In each instance the organs you hear on this record were voiced individually for the building when the installation was made. All four instruments are three-manual organs of approximately the same size, but the tonal specifications of each custom organ have been tailored to the individual church's musical needs and tastes.
Recording on location can be a challenge under the best of circumstances, and making this record produced its share of problems. Recording sessions had to be scheduled around other church activities. Particularly in the case of St. Pius X, most of the recording was done at night because the church is in a direct line with the San Antonio Airport. Some extraneous noise may be noticed, since the completion of a number was often married by the arrival or departure of a jet.
St. Pius X Church, San Antonio Texas (right) -- Organist Bene Hammel during a recording session.
St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles Church, San Antonio, Texas (center and below left).
The St. Peter Choir and Choir Director Gene Regard during a recording session.
Concordia Lutheran Church, San Antonio, Texas (below right).
Seventh Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati Ohio (front cover).
*Baldwin Multi-Waveform Organ Opus 8*
Concordia Lutheran Church, San Antonio Texas
In the Baldwin Custom Multi-Waveform Organ, organ tradition and Baldwin scientific research have successfully united, resulting in a most musically advanced, tonally authentic and versatile organ ever produced. The sound of this remarkable instrument is the proof of its musical capabilities. Computer generated independent voices capture subtle nuances of traditional organ tone, produce each infinitesimal shading of tonal color and slightly fluctuating air sound. Most important, just as each pipe in a rank speaks in its own unique voice, so does Baldwin's tone generation system produce a separate and individual waveform for each note of each stop.
The tonal design and voicing of ea particular Multi-Waveform Organ may be on the Classic side with its clarity and brightness, or the warmth of beautiful solo stops and broad ensemble of the Romantic Organ may be evidenced as well. Tonal specifications of each custom organ are tailored to the church's individual requirements. To illustrate a typical custom tonal design, the specifications for the Concordia Lutheran organ, the largest of the four featured on this recording, are given here.
