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We replaced our (digital) organ a couple of years ago. The previous one dated from 1992. People were surprised that we needed to replace it so quickly: I asked
by Doctor_Fegg 10y ago
We replaced our (digital) organ a couple of years ago. The previous one dated from 1992. People were surprised that we needed to replace it so quickly: I asked how many of them were still using an Amstrad word-processor from 1992.
- HarryHirsch 10y agoOn the other hand, there's plenty people who are still using a HP calculator from the same era. There's nothing inherent to computers that forces a rapid turnover. It gets really problematic when you have capital equipment with a lifetime of decades controlled by a computer that for some reason needs replacement every five years. Organ builders have solved the problem: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgellandschaft_Ostfriesland https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgellandschaft_Ostfriesland
- Grishnakh 10y agoI helped out a local church a few years ago that had an electronic pipe organ from approximately 1980. It wasn't digital at all, it was purely analog. Some of the keys didn't work any more, and others were out of tune. Basically, the way it worked is that every key had a whole circuit (with two key circuits per pluggable card) behind it which generated the tones; it was ridiculously inefficient. Over time, a bunch of the capacitors had gone out of spec, beyond the ability to use the potentiometers to compensate.