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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.