From dsurkin@optonline.net Tue Dec 18 07:04:30 2012
Subject:Re: Playing organ vs Keyboard

--- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, rafael2pop wrote:
I knew latency idea before MIDI .

Was by first time when was playing hymns on a Danish pipe organ, btw, oldest in the province of Buenos Aires  (built ca. 1900)
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Rafael

I remember the first time I played a pipe organ, I was a freshman in college. I tried playing a Bach invention, and the delay in the sound drove me crazy. I made it through eight bars before I stopped in puzzlement/embarrassment. To this day, I do not know how classical organists manage to perform on such instruments. I particularly do not know how they manage to perform with a chorus or orchestra when they have to play so far ahead of the beat.

--Dean L. Surkin