[Fedora-music-list] NYC's Trinity Church and Linux OS (fwd)
Fascinating.
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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:47:55 -0400
From: Heather Miller <hmiller(a)redhat.com>
To: Media Monitor <media-monitor(a)redhat.com>
Subject: NYC's Trinity Church and Linux OS
Interesting use of the Linux OS:
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/060911ta_talk_hersh
"The organ, which belongs to Trinity Church on lower Broadway, had been
damaged during the destruction of the World Trade Center. When the first
tower collapsed, the sanctuary filled with the dark smoke and dust that
covered much of downtown Manhattan. Fine particles filtered into the
organ, clogging its nine thousand pipes and corroding its leather parts)....
Owen Burdick, Trinity’s organist and director of music, thinks the
church may have found something better: an all-digital organ, installed
in 2003 as an “interim” solution, which has been a surprise hit. (It has
standard consoles for playing, but no pipes; its software runs on the
Linux operating system.) In July, Burdick demonstrated it at the
American Guild of Organists convention in Chicago, where it received a
standing ovation. “It can do a lot of things a pipe organ can’t,”
Burdick says."
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