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Playing the Rodgers Insignia & Alleigiant Organs
Using this book.
For centuries organ builders have built organs and passed on inside information to the organist about
the organ that will be their musical partner. Every organ is built to a vision, a vision of the music that
the organ will be playing.
To help you explore the musical possibilities of this organ, we have created this book as a map
that explores places for you to go, things to see. Before taking a trip it is helpful to study a guide book
and get an idea of what you want to do when you get there. Some people find themselves in places
and then buy a guide book to figure out what they are seeing every day. This book works the same
way, it can serve as an introduction to the instrument or provide insight for the person who is already
playing an Insignia. .
What places are we going to visit? Rather than museums and coffee houses, we are going to
visit music. Music that we can play. Music that explores the sound of the voices of this organ.
You do not need to read this book or the owner’s manual to play the organ. It is designed as
a straightforward classical organ, built to AGO standards, which means that everything is laid out in a
logical place and that the console is ergonomically designed to ease playing of the manuals and pedals.
The AGO design was established in the mid 20th-century long before ‘ergonomic’ became a house-
hold word.
Organs which rely on electricity for power and control often have a window into the workings
of the organ, in this case we call it a Display Window. When you power the organ up, it displays a wait
message. When the organ is prepared for playing, the Transposer Window appears. This window
opens when told to, by you, to provide additional pipe organs sounds, orchestral voices such as Or-
chestral Oboe, Harpsichord, Trumpets and Timpani. The window also let’s you configure these voices
to suit the music you are going to be playing.
Why isn’t this all simpler? Why have a window? Anyone can operate a microwave to pop
popcorn and heat water for coffee. Microwave designers must get awfully frustrated designing a
cooking device that can assist in preparing gourmet feasts...when purchasers end up just using it to
pop popcorn. Microwave cookbooks gather dust, sitting on the shelf unread.
This organ has a display window to make going beyond the basics easy. Every change that you
wish to make in the window is simple as 1, 2, 3. You never go beyond three layers to get where you
are going. 1. Open the Window, 2. Choose the Option, 3. Select the Option. It’s that easy. It’s
designed to make it simple for you to make music.
Since this book was origianlly written, the Allegiant Organs have been introduced. There are a
few additions to the Allegiant, more piston memories, for example, otherwise they are identical with
the Insiginia in operation and everything in this book applies to them as well.
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