I think CCB was saying, please consider buying one of the digital organs I represent. (I've been holding this in for a while but it's probably time to go ahead and say it.)
... and in the former church, I may have to pray for a lightening strike or some other misfortune to occur before they will replace the 40+year old Hammond.
But, at some point, as you pointed out, our rhetoric is bound to betray us and divide us inexorably, miserably. And that is the reality I've feared for CMAA since I joined.
overblown, defensive, and even insulting, as your own posts on this thread show.
This conversation has been, from the very first post, too heated
There was mutual respect being exhanged.
This is mild compared to what I have seen in those groups ... Many of these devolve into ad hominem attacks and name calling and other pejoratives.
A parish that purchases a simulacrum over a custom-built, hand-crafted instrument ignores several things, not the least of which the issue of good stewardship.
the same make chosen for years by the Metropolitan Opera for how it blends with the human voice.
Once again, a small, one-manual instrument, properly designed and voiced and beautifully crafted to be unique is a glimpse of the perfection of God's creation. An electronic simulacrum is a fraudulent, hoax-filled mockery of that same perfection.
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