At 11:15 PM -0400 7/18/10, David W. Fenton wrote:
I can't quite understand the product space here. It seems that nobody really makes anything at a professional level of quality in both keyboard and sound output.
Perhaps around 10 years ago, Opera Roanoke did Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo." (A very good production, in my opinion, conducted by Jan Harrington from Indiana.)
On the other side of the orchestra they had an electronic organ that had what I thought were EXCELLENT samples, and a choice of at least a few historic sounding stops (and possibly even temperaments). It may have been a Roland, although I'm not at all sure, and I have no idea if it's still for sale and what the price is, but I believe it was owned by Opera Roanoke, and you might try to contact them for information. I can't remember whether that organ also had harpsichord stops.
We also had a harpsichord on each end of the orchestra, which was nice. The one on our end was a Zuckerman, but that was OK because we had the lutes, harp and theorbo! I played bass gamba on that gig, and doubled on soprano and garklein recorders. (Those Furies were REALLY furious, but that's what the conductor wanted!)
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