Assuming one wants/needs to accompany chant are there any standards for organ registration?
Set aside the prejudice that chant is ideally sung without accompaniment and that organ registration is subjective and depends on the instrument, room etc.
I tend to use mostly 8' soft stops flutes/strings and perhaps a 4' flute. I must also confess that I tend to like a soft celeste in the mix (flute or erzahler), but never a tremulant (unless perhaps if soloing out a melody, but not when accompanying singing).
The reason I ask is that while I would assume most people here would be opposed to using a tremulant for accompaniment (in any situation) and probably detest the Hammond sound in general (at least for sacred music), there seems to be an old school (mid-20th century) of thought that actually taught to always use temulant. I assume this comes from the theater organ folk who happened to also hold a church job (and perhaps many churches did in fact have a Hammond), but still I found it odd when this came up in a conversation I had recently.
Set aside the prejudice that chant is ideally sung without accompaniment and that organ registration is subjective and depends on the instrument, room etc.
I tend to use mostly 8' soft stops flutes/strings and perhaps a 4' flute. I must also confess that I tend to like a soft celeste in the mix (flute or erzahler), but never a tremulant (unless perhaps if soloing out a melody, but not when accompanying singing).
The reason I ask is that while I would assume most people here would be opposed to using a tremulant for accompaniment (in any situation) and probably detest the Hammond sound in general (at least for sacred music), there seems to be an old school (mid-20th century) of thought that actually taught to always use temulant. I assume this comes from the theater organ folk who happened to also hold a church job (and perhaps many churches did in fact have a Hammond), but still I found it odd when this came up in a conversation I had recently.