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"Keys" in a Street or Fair Organ
By Bob Essex

I am not able to shed a lot of light on the matter of keys raised by
Gene Kuntz (Hi there, Gene! - Well done!), only to say it is a curious
anomaly where MIDI organs are concerned, and I understand the problem.

My own organ, "King Solomon", plays on 5 MIDI channels simultaneously
and can play all the following list of notes individually: 12 Bass,
7 Accompaniment, 32 Melody, 32 countermelody including glockenspiel,
24 trumpets, 24 Octave-forte, 12 percussions, a 49-note accordion and
6 registers; a total of 198 active MIDI outputs.  It would take an organ
book 198 notes wide to emulate this degree of control.  To describe it
as a 198-key organ sounds a bit fatuous, but that is what it is the
equivalent of.

If people ask, and they do, I call it a 162-key equivalent organ
(a figure I just conjured up).  Perhaps someone, somewhere, has the
appropriate answer.

Bob Essex


(Message sent Fri 17 Mar 2006, 13:05:17 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

Key Words in Subject:  Fair, Keys, or, Organ, Street

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