Journal hard-to-get-a-nickna's Journal: Linux-based organ to replace organ damaged by 9/11

The New Yorker has a story about an Linux-based organ used to replace the traditional organ of Trinity Church in lower Broadway:

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. Meloni isn't persuaded. "It's the best electronic organ I've ever heard," he said. "But Trinity deserves better."