Viscount Vivace 30 Laminat

Finish	dark oak laminate
pedal form	27 keys straight

Finish

dark oak laminate

pedal form

27 keys straight

New church organ !!

Hellfiremusic, 17.07.2015

I bought this for a local church, as their 1960's valve organ had finally run out of valves.
I went for the straight pedal board, which, although cheaper, in hindsight is not quite as good as the concave (more expensive) board, but the pedals work fine - it is just I prefer the concave pedals.
As for the organ, it sounds fantastic. I bought some extra powered monitors to bump up the volume, although it does have built in speakers that put out quite a volume. With the 4 extra monitors the organ can easily lead a congregation of 120 singing carols etc!
The organ comes with 4 different sets of ranks, with 4 different era organs having been sampled, so that you can swap between a more Baroque organ and say a French Romantic organ. The tab stops however are labeled for the first rank of stops, and so you either have to make your own labels, or buy replacement labels that can be slotted into the tabs.
The thumb pistons are programmable, but are only beneath the lower (great) manual and control global setups (ie stops for pedals, great and swell) - there are no separate thumb pistons for the swell, or foot pistons for the pedals, but this is the "basic model" after all.
It is fun to play, and with 2 volume pedals (one for each keyboard) plus the 6 thumb pistons is pretty versatile - you can also manually switch tabs on/off when using the thumb pistons which on some organs you can't.

The keyboards have a slight tracker action, which is much better than the old springy electronic actions. It is also nice that when you use couplers you don't have to take up weight training beforehand, as the touch remains the same - much better than the old tracker organs.

For the price, I would say that this is very good value for money. Everybody is still extremely happy with it (especially myself and the other organist who plays it). It is perfect for leading hymns and it is nice to be able to play a Frank Choral without struggling with an old 8 rank pipe organ, with 2x8', 2x4' and a smattering of other stops if you are lucky!!

Enjoy!

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