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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... usual modes of construction . The endeavour has been made to give a thorough insight into practical building , without undue prolixity in minor detail . At The Author cannot close this preface without alluding to the important help he ...
... usual modes of construction . The endeavour has been made to give a thorough insight into practical building , without undue prolixity in minor detail . At The Author cannot close this preface without alluding to the important help he ...
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... usual kind then made . It must be noticed that hitherto organs were imported into Europe from Italy , but as they became more common and more sought , the French took up the art , and in a short time not only equalled , but excelled ...
... usual kind then made . It must be noticed that hitherto organs were imported into Europe from Italy , but as they became more common and more sought , the French took up the art , and in a short time not only equalled , but excelled ...
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... usual for the builder to go to the place where the instrument was to be set up , and do his work on the spot . Up to about the middle of the fifteenth century the art of organ building appears to have been entirely confined to the ...
... usual for the builder to go to the place where the instrument was to be set up , and do his work on the spot . Up to about the middle of the fifteenth century the art of organ building appears to have been entirely confined to the ...
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... usual order ; this , we have been told , was a caprice of one of the past organists . Loosemore also built a small organ for the school in connection with the cathedral , and one which up to a recent period remained precisely as he left ...
... usual order ; this , we have been told , was a caprice of one of the past organists . Loosemore also built a small organ for the school in connection with the cathedral , and one which up to a recent period remained precisely as he left ...
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... usual swell manual , which has its own independent swell action also . The result of this arrangement is very useful , and produces a fine effect of distance , and softens the general effect , which softness of course can be entirely ...
... usual swell manual , which has its own independent swell action also . The result of this arrangement is very useful , and produces a fine effect of distance , and softens the general effect , which softness of course can be entirely ...
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