Resonator system sets new standards.

KIENLE^® has been in the organ building business for digital organs for many decades. The more than 3000 organs delivered all around the world are proof for quality and innovation. Since the first viable digital organ with sampling technology was developed by KIENLE^® and presented at the European Council in Strasbourg in 1985, the demand on sound quality has increased.

In the meantime, a digital organ with good pipe samples and sufficient memory can create the prerequisites for a sophisticated sound. Various KIENLE^® patents provide the basis and benchmark for good digital organs.

Indeed, even today the greatest problem for all manufacturers of digital organs is still the sound conversion. The speakers or speaker boxes used by manufacturers so far are for inherently physical reasons completely unsuitable in comparison to the pipe organ. While in the pipe an air column is generated by the wind, which carries the sound in wave-like movements into the room, the speaker must displace the air. It is not surround sound that is generated, but audio pressure. The partitioning into a multitude of channels is not the solution to the problem.

With the resonator systems developed by KIENLE^® an air column is generated in the resonators just like in the pipes. It is generated every time the frequency issued by the digital organ matches the length of the resonator.



This is how it works
The KIENLE^® Resonator System uses resonators made of various materials. Resonators made of edgeless material, which has no natural resonance (e.g. plastics), is used for the tonic and bass. Pipe resonators consisting of 75% tin are applied for the overtones and aliquots. The pipe resonators provide additional frequencies due to their material consistence. The membrane of a speaker cannot accomplish this.

Since the pipe resonator provides a multitude in resonance, the KIENLE^® System does not need an own pipe for each tone. In contrast to the pipe organ, it is not the tones that are separated but the frequencies.

Sound conversion
The speakers play only a minor role in the KIENLE^® system. They are merely designed to convey the tone frequency from the digital organ to the resonator. The speakers are directly coupled with the resonators. In this way the air is used as conveyor, in contrast to the speaker, to convey the vibrations generated in the resonator into the surroundings. At this point, the sound is without directional effect but goes into the depth as well as upwards and widthwise. Of course the resonators must be adjusted to the right tone pitch (Lambda 1/2).

Summary
Intensive research has helped KIENLE^® to develop a system that revolutionizes organ building. It has already convinced enthusiastic customers worldwide.

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