Building a Heritage™ Allen Organ by Rudy Lucente (continued) 10. Finally, the day I had waited for so long arrived when the Allen truck pulled up at my home. The men from the company's installation department carefully unloaded the heavily-protected console and placed it my music room in the space prepared. Then they installed the speaker cabinets, using high-quality cable and with great detail concerning the cosmetics of wiring installation. When completed, we turned on the organ for the first time in its new home. Everything was in order and worked flawlessly. Over a period of weeks, several tonal experts from Allen assisted me in the meticulous task of "matching" the organ to its space and bringing out the best in the Renaissance™ tone generation system. We voiced the organ stop-by-stop and note-by-note, just like a fine pipe organ. Through Allen's amazing SoundMatrix™ technology, we even changed some of the organ's actual voices to best compliment my room. The result of these voicing sessions is an instrument that some of the finest recitalists have described as perhaps "the best non-pipe organ they've ever encountered." No small compliment for a home installation, but the pipe-like intimacy and musicality of the instrument is no less than would be expected from Allen. Here is the instrument, installed in my home, where it gives me endless pleasure while challenging me to become a better organist: As any organist can appreciate, the history of my organ's build is one that is very special to me . I am pleased to share it with you.