LITMIR.BIZ

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664627544

Table of Contents

       FOREWORD

       INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS

       THE RECENT REVOLUTION IN ORGAN BUILDING

       CHAPTER I.

       AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING.

       Pre-historic Double Flutes. From Assyrian and Egyptian Tombs

       CHAPTER II.

       THE ORGAN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

       Fig. 1. The Wind-chest. Front View

       Fig. 2. The Wind-chest. Side View

       CHAPTER III.

       THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA—THE PNEUMATIC LEVER.

       Fig. 3. The Pneumatic Lever

       Fig. 4. Nomenclature of Organ Keyboard

       PROSPER-ANTOINE MOITESSIER, INVENTOR OF TUBULAR PNEUMATIC ACTION

       CHAPTER IV.

       PNEUMATIC AND ELECTRO-PNEUMATIC ACTIONS.

       TUBULAR PNEUMATICS.[1]

       Fig. 5. Tubular Pneumatic Action

       THE CRYING NEED FOR ELECTRIC ACTION.

       The First Electric Organ Ever Built. In the Collegiate Church at Salon, Near Marseilles, France (1866) .

       DESCRIPTION OF THE ELECTRIC ACTION.

       Fig. 6. The Electro-Pneumatic Lever

       Fig. 7. Valve and Valve Seat, Hope-Jones Electric Action

       DIVISION OF ORGANS.

       OCTAVE COUPLERS.

       DR. ALBERT PESCHARD. Inventor of Electro-Pneumatic Action.

       CHAPTER V.

       STOP-KEYS.

       Fig. 8. Console, Showing the Inclined Keyboards First Introduced Into This Country by Robert Hope-Jones

       Fig. 9. Console on the Bennett System, Showing Indicator Discs

       Fig. 10. Console of Organ in Trinity Church, Boston, Mass. Built by Hutchings Organ Co.

       Fig. 11. Console of Organ in College of City of New York. Built by The E. M. Skinner Co.

       CONTROL OF THE STOPS.

       CHAPTER VI.

       RADIATING AND CONCAVE PEDAL BOARDS.

       PEDAL STOP CONTROL.

       CHAPTER VII.

       MEANS OF OBTAINING EXPRESSION.

       CRESCENDO PEDAL.

       SFORZANDO PEDAL—DOUBLE TOUCH.

       BALANCED SWELL PEDAL

       SWELL BOXES.

       Fig. 12. The Principle of the Sound Trap

       Fig. 13. Sound Trap Joint

       Figs. 14-15. The Vacuum Shutter

       CHAPTER VIII.

       A REVOLUTION IN WIND SUPPLY.

       BELLOWS SPRINGS VERSUS WEIGHTS.

       INDIVIDUAL

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