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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Page 4
... bellows , being more or less complete , was the result . The accompanying cut ( Fig . 1 ) re- presents one of the ... power of water was called into play , and the hydraulic organ , or hydraulicon , sprung into existence . The manner in which ...
... bellows , being more or less complete , was the result . The accompanying cut ( Fig . 1 ) re- presents one of the ... power of water was called into play , and the hydraulic organ , or hydraulicon , sprung into existence . The manner in which ...
Page 7
... bellows , and enclosed in a gilded case . " In the reign of Edgar , St. Dunstan gave an organ to Malmsbury Abbey ... power . Whether the " seventy men " " were employed at the same time to blow the bellows EARLY HISTORY . 7.
... bellows , and enclosed in a gilded case . " In the reign of Edgar , St. Dunstan gave an organ to Malmsbury Abbey ... power . Whether the " seventy men " " were employed at the same time to blow the bellows EARLY HISTORY . 7.
Page 9
... power , and as organs increased in size so did the necessity for increasing the amount and steady supply of the wind become felt . As was seen in the description of the Winchester organ , many bellows and seventy men were required to ...
... power , and as organs increased in size so did the necessity for increasing the amount and steady supply of the wind become felt . As was seen in the description of the Winchester organ , many bellows and seventy men were required to ...
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... power - bellows . There are as many of these power - bellows as there are keys to the clavier , and instead of the key acting on the sound - board pallet , it acts on a small and light valve which admits compressed air into the power ...
... power - bellows . There are as many of these power - bellows as there are keys to the clavier , and instead of the key acting on the sound - board pallet , it acts on a small and light valve which admits compressed air into the power ...
Page 66
... electric actions are in their proper place ; but imagine an organ of small size in the depths of the country , with , say , fifty - six extra power bellows or two galvanic batteries requiring attention . Sim- plicity in every possible ...
... electric actions are in their proper place ; but imagine an organ of small size in the depths of the country , with , say , fifty - six extra power bellows or two galvanic batteries requiring attention . Sim- plicity in every possible ...
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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