Hybrid Organs
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What Is A Hybrid Pipe Organ?
A hybrid pipe organ combines existing physical pipe organ pipes with digitally voiced stops. As such, your pipe organ is optimized in every way to provide multi-faceted flexibility to your space. Ultimately you’re able to accomplish more by adding digital stops that your current space cannot physically support.
How Our Hybrid Organs Work
Organists may think a hybrid pipe organ seems too good to be true. Although we can guarantee it is as amazing as it sounds, we understand you might be skeptical! It's important to realize that each pipe organ is unique because the sound changes in accordance to what’s being played. Furthermore, the anatomy of your particular instrument will affect your organ's sound. For example, most simple digital organs use static samples to produce tones. This is absolutely nothing compared to the hybrid and digital organs we provide at Viscount Organs of Michigan. That's because our hybrid and digital pipe organs utilize cutting edge Physis® technology created by the experts at Viscount Organs.
A Hybrid Pipe Organ . . .
Check out the Dedication Concert of the
Viscount Hybrid Organ of
St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Installed By
Viscount Organs of Michigan
The Largest Viscount Hybrid Organ in the World!
Introducing a new era in hybrid pipe organ technology
A hybrid organ is a combination between a pipe organ and a digital organ. This combination can offer your church many different advantages. For example, you can replace your obsolete and failing console with a new ultra-high quality Viscount Console, and often for less money than rebuilding the original one. You also have the option of very simply adding digital voices to your current pipe organ, but this isn't mandatory when using Laurel with your existing pipe organ.
Viscount has been a forerunner in the development and building of hybrid organs for decades. We have a long history of building musical instruments and are flexible on the construction of different installations by facing every situation and church request as an individual request, not based on a cookie cutter approach. Our digital organs are equipped with the most advanced technology like Physis® and are designed to be perfectly interfaced with pipe organs using our Laurel Control System, Laurel Digital Voice System, and Laurel V.P.I.(Viscount Pipe Interface), a special proprietary device that has been especially designed for this purpose.
We offer an exclusive patented solution that allow our digital organs to be always tuned with pipes organs. The notes emitted by pipe can slightly change because of ambient temperature variation. Our device is equipped with multiple sensors that detect minute environmental changes that affect pipe organ tuning. This information is used to tune the notes produced by the digital generation with those produced by pipes. This advanced technology has proven to be very reliable and fast, and been installed in organs worldwide. In addition to following temperature changes, Viscount's patented tuning system also audibly listens to the pipe organ every 2-3 milliseconds to ensure that the digital voices are always perfectly in tune with the pipes.
