To Grandpa Doug from Great Grandpa Walt and to all the rest of the fine people out there:

I didn't mean to "stomp" on you so hard old friend. I think we have all gone through the "pump the pedal" syndrome when learning to play the organ. The only time that I use the pedal is to make overall volume adjustments from one arrangement to another, except when playing the Hammond.
As for the need on a real Hammond organ, the tones were generated by mechanical/magnetic means and there was no other way to change the volume. The closest that the Hammond came to some semblence of touch sensitivity was to mix percussive upper tones with the basic drawbar setups. The percussive tone (usually 4 ft.) died away quickly and left the basic tone sound as long as the key was pressed. On short, fast moving phrases, both sounded together, but on slower phrasing, you got the double effect of the percussion. A skillful player could get amazing variety out of this combination.
Again, pipe organs have no control over actual pipe volume. Most, except for church organs, were shuttered so that by opening and closng the shutters (remotely by the expression pedal)the sound level could be changed. Most had the pipes split into two or more chambers with individual shutters and pedals so that groups of pipe ranks, such as main and solo, ETC., could be under control.
As far as I know, the only keyboard sensitivity on a pipe organ was aftertouch, and it was used to control the "toy boxes" such as xylophone, marimba, cymbal, and snare, ETC., on theater organs.
Anyway, in the end you pay your money and take your choice.
The KN7000 is a great compromise of all of the things that have been done before, all stuffed into a little box, and the final results are only limited by the skill of the musician at the keyboard.
The keyboard is only a tool -- the trick is to learn how to use it!
Well, enough of the soapbox tonight (gosh, I'm getting to be almost as windy as Grandpa Doug, Ha Ha).
See everyone around the circuit.
Walt