This is an exciting time for music at St. Stephen’s. The old pipe organ is being carefully removed from the chamber and is on its way to a new home at the Sawyer residence. In addition, the Allen electronic organ that served as our interim instrument this past year, has been sold and is off to a new church to continue its service in aiding the worship of God.
At the same time, the new Rodgers instrument has arrived and is currently being voiced to suit our space. The customized voicing process is an amazingly complex process by which every note for every single set of pipes (it may be a digital instrument, but it still has virtual “pipes”) is adjusted for volume, tone, attack (the huffing noise that precedes the actual note, caused in a real organ by the air first hitting the pipe), and tuning.