Specifications

ALLEN ORGAN COMPANY
For more than fifty years--practically the entire history of electronic organs--the
Allen Organ Company has sought to build the finest organs that technology would
allow.
In 1939, Allen built and marketed the world’s first purely electronic oscillator
organ. The tone generators for this first instrument used two hundred forty-four
vacuum tubes, contained about five thousand components, and weighed nearly
three hundred pounds. Even with all this equipment, the specification included
relatively few stops.
By 1959, Allen had replaced vacuum tubes in the oscillator organs with
transistors. Thousands of transistorized instruments were built, including some of
the largest, most sophisticated oscillator organs.
Only a radical technological breakthrough could improve upon the fine
performance of Allen’s solid-state oscillator organs. Such a breakthrough came in
conjunction with the U.S. Space Program in the form of highly advanced digital
microcircuits.
Renaissance
™
organs are the product of years of refinement in digital sound and
control techniques by Allen engineers. It represents the apex of computer
technology applied to exacting musical tasks. The result is an instrument of
remarkably advanced tone quality and performance.
Congratulations on the purchase of your new Allen Renaissance
™
Organ! You
have acquired the most advanced electronic organ ever built, one that harnesses a
modern computer to create and control beautiful organ tones.
Familiarize yourself with the instrument by reading through this booklet. The
sections on stop description and organ registration are intended for immediate use
as well as for future reference