Invisible wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
> 
>> 2 manuals and 1 peddleboard.
> 
> Typical for a small organ.
> 
>> Peddleboard: 30 keys, C0 - F1, straight concave, wood, mechanical action.
> 
> Concave = the peddles in the middle are lower than the peddles at the 
> edges. The alternative is for all peddles to be the same height.
> 
> Straight = the peddles are parallel to each other. The alternative is 
> "radial", meaning the peddles radiate out around the stool.
> 
>> Peddle division:
>>   Bordon 16'
> 
> Small organs typically have very few peddle stops. If there is only one, 
> it is almost always a Bordon.
> 
>> Great division:
>>   Open Diapason 8'
>>   Stopped Diapason 8'
> 
> These are your basic organ stops. Sounds rather flute-like. The stopped 
> diapason sounds quieter and more muffled, but otherwise similar to the 
> open diapason. These are both 8' (i.e., normal pitch) stops.
> 
>>   Dulciana 8' (incomplete rank)
> 
> A rather pleasent, quiet stop, with a mellow tone. Sounds almost 
> "distant". It is "incomplete" in that there are no pipes for the bottom 
> octave.
> 
>>   Principal 4'
>>   Flute 4' (incomplete rank)
>>   Fifteenth 2'
> 
> These sound more or less like diapasons, but higher-pitched. Use them on 
> their own, or mixed in with an 8' stop just to add more trebble.
> 
>> Swell division (enclosed):
>>   Double Diapason 16' (incomplete rank)
> 
> Double as in double length. (This is a 16' stop.)
> 
>>   Horn Diapason 8' (incomplete rank)
> 
> I'm not fond of this one. Sounds a bit like a fog horn.
> 
>>   Lieblich Gedact 8'
> 
> Ask Florian how the **** you pronounce that. (It seems to be roughly 
> "YEE-blihh deDAAkt".) It has a lovely flute-like tone, soft and 
> delicate. Works best for melodies rather than chords.
> 
>>   Principal 4'
>>   Full Mixture III
> 
> Again, use these to flesh out the sound. Personally I don't like the 
> Mixture stop very much.
> 
>>   Cornopean 8'
> 
> The only reed rank on the organ. (The others are all flue pipes.) 
> Produces an irritating trumpet-like sound.
> 
>>   Tremelo (sic.)
> 
> Pull this and the organ makes a thunderous noise like an unbalanced 
> washing machine! o_O Makes all the ranks sound like they've been put 
> through a Leslie speaker. (It modulates the air pressure.)
> 
>> Couplers:
>>   Swell to Peddle
>>   Swell to Great
>>   Great to Peddle
> 
> As demonstrated, this causes a second set of keys to move when you press 
> the first set. (Also makes the keys correspondingly heavier! And more 
> prone to jamming on this tired old organ.) On modern electric organs, 
> this would just make an extra rank speak without actually moving the 
> keys. I kinda like the graphic demonstration of what it does though!

Thanks for that :) an interesting read. So, this is a pretty typical 
organ, then?

-- 
~Mike

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