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 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 52
Page 4
... producing what for the future we may dignify with the title organs , was now centered in obtaining a steady and sufficient supply of wind . It being found that men could not regulate the amount of wind supplied by their efforts , and ...
... producing what for the future we may dignify with the title organs , was now centered in obtaining a steady and sufficient supply of wind . It being found that men could not regulate the amount of wind supplied by their efforts , and ...
Page 5
... producing it . These instruments soon became common throughout Italy , and the manu- facture at this period was confined to the Greeks and Romans . In the year A.D. 395 Theodosius possessed an instrument which he has the credit of ...
... producing it . These instruments soon became common throughout Italy , and the manu- facture at this period was confined to the Greeks and Romans . In the year A.D. 395 Theodosius possessed an instrument which he has the credit of ...
Page 9
... produced notoriety , and we find the organ at last asserting itself in such a manner that in a few years every monastery possessed a small instrument , termed a Regal , " to lead the voices , and from this period the organ has steadily ...
... produced notoriety , and we find the organ at last asserting itself in such a manner that in a few years every monastery possessed a small instrument , termed a Regal , " to lead the voices , and from this period the organ has steadily ...
Page 16
... produce tones that are equal to those of this celebrity . It must be admitted that Smith had the advantage of introducing many stops that were hitherto unknown in this country , such as the vox humana CHAPTER III. ...
... produce tones that are equal to those of this celebrity . It must be admitted that Smith had the advantage of introducing many stops that were hitherto unknown in this country , such as the vox humana CHAPTER III. ...
Page 21
... produced by causing the front of the echo - organ box to slide in a sash , like a window , under the control of a pedal . This clumsy arrangement continued until Green took the matter up , and introduced the Venetian swell , which yet ...
... produced by causing the front of the echo - organ box to slide in a sash , like a window , under the control of a pedal . This clumsy arrangement continued until Green took the matter up , and introduced the Venetian swell , which yet ...
Other editions - View all
Organs and Organ Building: A Treatise on the History and Construction of the ... C. A. Edwards No preview available - 2018 |
Organs and Organ Building: A Treatise on the History and Construction of the ... C. A. Edwards No preview available - 2014 |
Common terms and phrases
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