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• PRIME TIME AMERICA, broadcast on the Moody Broadcasting Network, June 17, 2002. Host: Greg Wheatley. Participants: Dan Anderson, Rolf Egeland, Ken Lundgren.


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• PRIME TIME AMERICA, broadcast on the Moody Broadcasting Network, June 3, 1998. Host: Greg Wheatley. Participants - the late Ken Hanna, Tim Anderson, John Wilson, Ken Lundgren. (With demo of an early prototype )


To hear the interview over the Internet you will need Real Audio 5.0 or G2 player software.

The Gloria Compact Digital Orchestra was designed to accompany the Award-winning Spanish hymnal Celebremos su Gloria (Let us Celebrate His Glory). More Details >



Imagine that you are the pastor / song leader in a small Latin American church. You want to enhance your worship service with some excellent hymns from the Spanish hymnal Celebremos Su Gloria (published by Celebremos/Libros Alianza).

But-


• The guitarist is sick.
• You don't have a musician who can read music.
• You don't have any instruments.
• The pianist can't transpose for the soloist.
• You want your people to learn a new song, but they can't read the notes.
• The choir needs to practice in 3 or 4-part harmony.

What do you do?

If only you had a little box - the size of the hymnal - that could play any of the nearly 600 songs in the hymnal, in any key, at any tempo. You could use it to accompany the soloist or the congregation. And, if you could select one part to play by itself, each section of the choir could learn and practice their parts.That is why we have developed GLORIA, the compact digital orchestra. Not only can it do all of this, but it can play with the realistic sounds of dozens of instruments. And, each song has been professionally recorded on six tracks in an appropriate style, with a combination of instruments already selected. But you can also select your own preferred instruments or combinations of instruments. All of the music is stored in a memory chip inside the box.

GLORIA is totally self-contained. It runs on four D size flashlight batteries, an AC adapter, or a solar charged battery; and it has a built-in speaker and 5 watt amplifier. The sound volume is adequate for a group of ten to twenty people. For use in larger churches, a sound system, keyboard amplifier, or guitar amplifier can be plugged into the external audio jack.

The primary intent of Gloria at present is to provide a worship aid for use in Latin American and other Spanish-speaking churches in conjunction with the hymnal CELEBREMOS SU GLORIA . Nearly 200 of the hymns are of purely Latin American origin. But about 400 of the hymns and choruses are familiar in English. There will undoubtedly be a demand for versions for use in other countries and other languages,
and that will be addressed in the future.

NEWS FLASH!

The Gloria 2 Compact Digital Orchestra is now in stock, and available for immediate delivery!
 
Gloria 2 has the same features and hymn selections as the original Gloria.

Places where Gloria is already enhancing worship through music:

HISPANIC: Argentina, Bolivia, Bonaire, Canary Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guajiro tribe (Colombia) Guayana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Sierra Leon, Spain, Uruguay, Venezuela

NON HISPANIC: Aruba, Australia, Belize, Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, China, Curazao, England, Equatorial Guinea (Africa), Ethiopia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Liberia, Lithuania, Macao, Mongolia, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Russia, San Martin (Caribbean), Siberia, Slovak Republic, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Tailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Yanomami Indian tribe (Brazil)