China
As part of a major enlargement, the Shenyang Conservatory of Music decided to purchase a custom Rodgers Trillium Masterpiece Series 968 digital organ, augmented with pipe ranks, designed and built by MPOS Ltd., pipe organ partners of Rodgers UK.
The standard MPOS pipe module size has been enlarged to include a full 8' Open Diapason, with the bottom octave in the equivalent of pedal towers. The speaker system for the digital stops is contained entirely within the pipe casework. The installation included adjusting the wind pressure and pipe voicing to give the best effect within the building. The digital sections of the Rodgers organ were also voiced by the MPOS team using traditional pipe voicing techniques, so that both the pipe and digital stops speak together with complete integrity. In conjunction with Rodgers Hong Kong, the UK MPOS team spent two weeks on site installing the organ.
The organ fills the 800-seat hall with great success and accompanies a full orchestra well. It enables the Conservatory to meet its aim: "To make even greater contributions to the cause of Chinese art, and music, and dance education." We understand that this is the first pipe organ in northeastern China, and therefore hope that the combination of MPOS pipework with the Rodgers digital organ will expose an entirely new culture and generation of students to the delights of the pipe organ.
