Allen Digital Computer Organ
date: label: Date made
content: 1971
name: label: user
content: St. Andrew's Evangelical Lutheran Church
label: maker
content: Allen Organ Company
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This organ was made by Allen Organ Company in Macungie, Pennsylvania, in 1971. It is a Digital Computer organ, System 300 model, with two keyboards, pedalboard, and bench. Accessioned with original owner's manual, "how-to" sheet, tone card instruction books, set of (43) tone cards, two Allen speakers (#23264 and #23265) and reference materials.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Originally designed for use in churches, the Allen all-digital electronic organ was perfect for smaller churches that lacked the space (or resources) for a traditional pipe organ. The organ was installed in St. Andrews's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Easton, Pennsylvania in 1971. It was replaced with a larger Allen organ in 1994.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The all-digital organ made by Allen was one of the first to use digital sampling but also LSI (large scale integrated) devices. The Allen Organ Company worked with Rockwell International, an aerospace company and a key player in the development of the Apollo space program, to develop the technology to produce a digital musical instrument. After two years of development, the Allen Digital Computer Organ was introduced to the world at a press conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, in 1971.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Macungie
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Organs
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content: Electronic Musical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Allen Organ Company (through Steve Markowitz)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0206.01
label: accession number
content: 2004.0206
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0206.01
label: maker number
content: AC109
label: maker number
content: 23264
label: maker number
content: 23265
objectType: label: Object Name
content: organ
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 44 1/2 in x 54 in x 50 in; 113.03 cm x 137.16 cm x 127 cm