SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

Virtuoso Pipe Organ Control System Brings Casavant Chancel Organ Back To Life

ATLANTA, GA, September 2, 2007 — Integrated Organ Technologies, Inc. (IOTI) today announced that the company’s leading edge VIRTUOSO pipe organ control system has been installed in the 1937 Casavant organ at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston, Maine.

“We selected the VIRTUOSO because of its unique flexibility to tackle the organ’s very special situation,” said Robert Faucher, President, Faucher Organ Company, Inc. “The VIRTUOSO system not only has performed exactly as advertised, but has also provided significant unexpected benefits. Working with IOTI on this custom system has been a pleasure.”

The special challenge at the Basilica was to link the 4-manual console for the seventy-five rank Casavant Freres gallery organ to the 2-manual, ten-rank Casavant chancel organ so that the chancel organ could be played from the gallery console as originally designed. Both Casavant organs, making up Maine’s largest church organ, were originally installed in 1937. Over the years, the chancel console had fallen into such disrepair as to render it unplayable. In fact, its original switching system had been previously discarded.

“For the first time in many years, the Basilica congregation is enjoying the full beauty of their two Casavant organs,” reported Mr. Faucher. “My client is thrilled that we were able to so creatively solve their problem, as well as providing the unexpected flexibility of an additional chancel console for use on special occasions.” Since the Basilica already owned a relatively new Allen digital organ for use in its Chapel, IOTI was able to configure its Virtuoso system to also allow it to control the chancel’s pipe organ, without any modifications to the Allen.

By installing the VIRTUOSO control system, the Basilica was able to bring the chancel organ back to life and prepare the groundwork for the eventual rebuild of the gallery console.

The power and flexibility of the VIRTUOSO pipe organ control system are what made this project possible without a major console rebuild. First, the electro-pneumatic gallery console was connected to the VIRTUOSO system using existing junction board outputs, with no changes required. Then the chancel organ was connected to the VIRTUOSO’s pipe interface board. Communication between the gallery console and chancel organ is via 570 feet of fiber optic cable running through the attic. Conventional systems using wire cables would have been too vulnerable to damage from lighting storms, since long runs of wiring act as antennas for static discharges.

Finally, the chancel organ can be fully operated by the Allen console wirelessly via an RF signal. As a result, the chancel organ is now playable from both the gallery console and the Allen console; organists at both consoles can even play the chancel organ simultaneously. Using a single VIRTUOSO CPU to operate the entire system eliminated all of the integration issues normally associated with a complex, multi-console configuration.

“Part of the reason I founded IOTI was to satisfy my personal passion for these magnificent musical instruments. It is always a pleasure to bring a masterpiece back to its full and vigorous playing condition,” announced IOTI founder Dwight Jones. “We are delighted to have been selected by Faucher Organ Company of Biddeford, ME for this project.”

About Integrated Organ Technologies, Inc.

Integrated Organ Technologies, Inc. builds and markets the Virtuoso pipe organ control system. Based on exhaustive research with organ builders, organ technicians, curators, and organists, “Virtuoso” has been engineered from the ground up to take advantage of recent developments in digital technology. As a result, the Virtuoso is small and flexible, extremely powerful, highly reliable, and extraordinarily easy to install, maintain and operate. To learn more, visit www.IOTI.com or contact Glen Sloan at 877.462.4684.