Controversy: Pipe Organs Go Digital
From their base in Needham, Mass., Doug Marshall and David Ogletree have set out to build the finest, cost-is-no-object digital organs in the world — instruments to rival in grandeur the world’s leading pipe organs. And by many accounts have succeeded, brilliantly. But their aspirations have also engendered hostility and suspicion among traditionalists, who see in their work a high-tech incursion on their aesthetic preserve.
