Organs and Organ Building: A Treatise on the History and Construction of the Organ, from Its Origin to the Present Day, with Important Specifications"The Bazaar" Office, 1881 - 248 pages |
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... ordinary instrument , and leaving the student or amateur very much as he started with regard to actual knowledge . These latter , too , have frequently been compiled by persons interested in certain instruments or building firms , and ...
... ordinary instrument , and leaving the student or amateur very much as he started with regard to actual knowledge . These latter , too , have frequently been compiled by persons interested in certain instruments or building firms , and ...
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... ordinary , " but also gave him apartments in Whitehall . In the choosing of his materials he was most particular , oak being his favourite for woodwork . He never allowed the slightest flaw to escape him , and rejected all wood with ...
... ordinary , " but also gave him apartments in Whitehall . In the choosing of his materials he was most particular , oak being his favourite for woodwork . He never allowed the slightest flaw to escape him , and rejected all wood with ...
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... ordinary pedals in use in England , by which the registers are moved , and the organist at once sees by the knobs what is the exact state of affairs . We have several specimens of French organs in this country ; as instances we mention ...
... ordinary pedals in use in England , by which the registers are moved , and the organist at once sees by the knobs what is the exact state of affairs . We have several specimens of French organs in this country ; as instances we mention ...
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... ordinary seasoning , but as it sometimes warps after this process , it must be banished at once as useless to the organ builder , however useful it may be in saving time in other trades . Seasoning proper is effected by subjecting wood ...
... ordinary seasoning , but as it sometimes warps after this process , it must be banished at once as useless to the organ builder , however useful it may be in saving time in other trades . Seasoning proper is effected by subjecting wood ...
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... ordinary instrument , they have been almost entirely superseded by the horizontal kind . We therefore shall not describe the former , but proceed at once to a description of those which are now generally used . " and Bellows consist of ...
... ordinary instrument , they have been almost entirely superseded by the horizontal kind . We therefore shall not describe the former , but proceed at once to a description of those which are now generally used . " and Bellows consist of ...
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accessory Amateurs arrangement backfall bass Bassoon bellows Bourdon Bryceson builders built Cathedral ccc to F chamber CHAPTER Choir Organ Church Clarionet clavier cloth gilt combination compass composition pedals compound stop construction contains coupler double draw draw-stop Dulciana effect electric equal temperament feeders Fifteenth flue pipes flue stops Flute frequently Gamba Gemshorn give grooves Harmonic holes Illustrated instance instru keyboard length lever manual matter mechanism ment mentioned Messrs metal Mixture movement mutation stops necessary Oboe octave One-Manual Solo Organ Open Diapason ordinary organ building organist pallet Pedal Organ pitch placed playing pneumatic portion position power-bellows Principal produced ranks reed Renatus Harris scale semitones sliders small organs soft sound sound-board speaking sticker Stopped Diapason supply tenor tone top-board tracker treble Tremulant Tremulant to Swell Trumpet trundle tube tuned upper boards usual valve vibrations Voix Celeste Vox Humana wind wind-chest wood