NYC's Trinity Church and Linux OS (fwd)

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

Fascinating.

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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:47:55 -0400
From: Heather Miller 
To: Media Monitor 
Subject: NYC's Trinity Church and Linux OS

Interesting use of the Linux OS:
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/060911ta_talk_hersh

"The organ, which belongs to Trinity Church on lower Broadway, had been 
damaged during the destruction of the World Trade Center. When the first 
tower collapsed, the sanctuary filled with the dark smoke and dust that 
covered much of downtown Manhattan. Fine particles filtered into the 
organ, clogging its nine thousand pipes and corroding its leather parts)....

Owen Burdick, Trinity’s organist and director of music, thinks the 
church may have found something better: an all-digital organ, installed 
in 2003 as an “interim” solution, which has been a surprise hit. (It has 
standard consoles for playing, but no pipes; its software runs on the 
Linux operating system.) In July, Burdick demonstrated it at the 
American Guild of Organists convention in Chicago, where it received a 
standing ovation. “It can do a lot of things a pipe organ can’t,” 
Burdick says."