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George Laing Miller. The Recent Revolution in Organ Building
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building
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 PALLETS
HEAVY WIND PRESSURES
MECHANICAL BLOWERS
CHAPTER IX
TRANSFERENCE OF STOPS
CHAPTER X
THE PRODUCTION OF ORGAN TONE
Series of harmonics
Fig. 16. Estey's Open Bass Pipes—Wood and Metal
DIAPASONS
Fig. 17. Diapason Pipe with Leathered Lip
THE DECLINE OF MIXTURES
FLUTES
STRINGS
REEDS
Fig. 18. Haskell's Clarinet Without Reed
Fig. 19. Diagram of Reed Pipe
Fig. 20. Vox Humana with Vowel Cavity Attached. Fig. 21. Orchestral Oboe with Vowel Cavity Attached Fig. 22. Kinura with Vowel Cavity Attached
UNDULATING STOPS—CELESTES
PERCUSSION STOPS
THE DIAPHONE
Fig. 23. Diaphone in Worcester Cathedral, Eng
Fig. 24. Diaphone in Aberdeen University
Figs. 25, 26, 27. Diaphone in St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York
Fig. 28. Diaphone in the Auditorium, Ocean Grove, N. J
Fig. 29. Diaphone in St. Paul's Cathedral, Buffalo, N. Y
Fig. 30. Diaphone Producing Foundation Tone
CHAPTER XI
TUNING
NEW METHOD OF REED TUNING
Figs. 31–35. New Method of Tuning Reeds
CHAPTER XII
PROGRESS OF THE REVOLUTION IN OUR OWN COUNTRY
ARISTIDE CAVAILLE-COLL
CHAPTER XIII
THE CHIEF ACTORS IN THE DRAMA
CHARLES SPACHMAN BARKER,
CHARLES SPACHMAN BARKER
ARISTIDE CAVAILLE-COLL
HENRY WILLIS
Henry Willis
ROBERT HOPE-JONES
Robert Hope-Jones
CHAPTER XIV
HOW WE STAND TO-DAY
AUTOMATIC PLAYERS
ORGAN IN ST. GEORGE'S HALL, LIVERPOOL, ENG
Keyboards of Organ in St. George's Hall, Liverpool. Two Rows of Stops at Left Omitted
ORGAN IN THE CATHEDRAL OF NOTRE-DAME, PARIS, FRANCE
Keyboards, Cathedral Notre Dame, Paris
ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL ORGAN, LONDON, ENG
WESTMINSTER ABBEY ORGAN, LONDON, ENG
The Console, Westminster Abbey
ORGAN IN THE MANSION OF J. MARTIN WHITE, ESQ., BALRUDDERY, SCOTLAND
Organ in Hall of Balruddery Mansion, Dundee, Scotland
ORGAN IN WORCESTER CATHEDRAL, ENGLAND
ORGAN IN WOOLSEY HALL, YALE UNIVERSITY, NEW HAVEN, CONN
ORGAN IN ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, BUFFALO, N. Y
ORGAN KNOWN AS THE HOPE-JONES UNIT ORCHESTRA, IN THE PARIS THEATRE, DENVER, COLORADO
The Author Playing a Hope-Jones Unit Orchestra
CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE, NEW YORK CITY
ORGAN IN UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, CANADA
CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE
LIVERPOOL CATHEDRAL, ENGLAND
