We supply and service digital church and theatre organs and midi devices from the Allen Organ Company. Allen Organs are a cost effective alternative to a pipe organ - providing an instrument that needs minimal maintenance and never needs tuning. WHY CONSIDER AN ALLEN ORGAN? Click here to find out.
Allen Organs have been installed in more than 50 churches and buildings within Western Australia and in Perth, ranging from self contained two manual models to three manual instruments with large audio systems and midi expansion devices. Here's where.
We also are agents for the exciting range of Suzuki digital pianos and keyboards. Check out the Studio Instruments webpage for more details.
Organ music, organ videos, and organ recordings on CD and cassette are also available. Check out the music page.
Need some organ playing tips? We are not qualified teachers, but can offer instruction and help based on a lifetime of playing church organ music.
LATEST NEWS:
• About 20 organ enthusiasts joined us on a very cold July afternoon for the Organ Society of WA's "Digital Organ Crawl". Starting at St Joseph's Catholic Church in Subiaco, we were entertained as organist Michael Peters ably demonstrated the two organs housed in that building. We discovered the best location in the church was in the organ loft; the sun shining through the beautiful stained glass window was pleasantly warm. We then moved to St Mary's Anglican Church in South Perth, which has a near new Protege organ fitted with Vista. Some time was spent exploring the variety of voices as well as the sound effects available from this instrument. Then we moved on to St Peter's Anglican Church in Victoria Park, where there are two MDS instruments, one 2 manual and the other 3 manual. More organ playing ensued, including a couple of impromptu duets. Then it was back to the Allen Organ Studio for afternoon tea, and a short recital by Milton Smith, organist from Perth Baptist Church. The afternoon was an enjoyable tour around a variety of digital organs.
• World Youth Day was a great success in Sydney, with nearly half a million in attendance at Randwick Racecourse. For such a huge occasion only a 3-manual Allen organ could be considered fit to accompany the liturgical settings for that grand event. The same thing happened in Perth back in 1986 when the Allen organ from St Joseph's Church, Subiaco was used to accompany the Mass conducted by His Holiness Pope John Paul II.
Click here to listen to the Allen organ and orchestra in the Final Mass in Sydney.
In the United States similar events took place in April this year.
Click here to listen to a recent radio program about the use of Allen Organs for the Papal visit in the USA.
• A new 3 manual organ has recently been installed at the Australian National University in Canberra. The organ needed to be "big" enough to fill the hall for grand ceremonial occasions plus be used for choral and orchestral work. Although there are speakers either side of the proscenium, the sound image is focused in the centre thanks to speakers that are mounted on a lighting bar at the rear of the stage. The stage speakers are on separate amps. There are 16 x 100 watt amps driving 24 speaker cabinets plus 2 x 100 watt amps driving 2 x sub-woofers. The organ has 6 stoplists available: American Classic, English cathedral, Cavaille-Coll, Arp Schnitger, Schlicker, and Orchestral. It takes approximately 7 seconds to change between stoplists.
• The Protege model C-6 is proving to be a very popular model organ. St Thomas More Catholic Church in Bateman has just received delivery of a brand new C-6 organ , bringing the number of C-6 organs now installed in Western Australia to five. The church is a large modern building seating around 500. The organ console is located at the front left hand side of the building, and two speaker cabinets have been located high up behind the panelling at the front of the altar, thus adequately filling the sanctuary with sound. As well as at Bateman, there are similar instruments installed in the Free Reformed Church of Byford, the Anglican Church St Mary the Virgin in South Perth, the Catholic church Our Lady of the Bay in Busselton, and one in a private residence.
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