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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.
Your MDS organ is the product of years of refinement in digital 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.
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