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ALLEN ORGAN COMPANY
Congratulations on the purchase of your new Allen Protégé organ! You have
acquired a most advanced electronic organ, 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.
For almost sixty years--practically the entire history of electronic organs--the Allen
Organ Company has built 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 vacuum tubes, contained about five
thousand components, and weighed nearly three hundred pounds.
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 oscillator organs. Such a
breakthrough came in conjunction with the U.S. Space Program in the form of
highly advanced digital microcircuits.
Your Protégé™ 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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