10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OCTAVE COUPLER»
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1
The American Reed Organ and the Harmonium
About 1869 Estey abandoned this device in favor of the fan tremolo described
above. The Octave Coupler is a draw stop used to mechanically connect one key
with another an octave away. There are several variations, but the most common
...
Robert F. Gellerman, 1997
2
The contemporary american organ
When the manual keys are coupled an octave higher, if the stops have only 61
pipes, the octave coupler has no more pipes to act on for the top octave of the
keyboard, and has therefore no effect. An additional octave of 12 pipes is usually
...
William Harrison Barnes, 1971
3
The Facts on File Dictionary of Music
Further, an octave coupler will bring into play the note an octave higher than the
one played (plus the one ordinarily produced), and a suboctave coupler will
similarly provide the note an octave lower. Organ pipes are open at the top and ...
4
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building: Being an Account of ...
Shortly after the introductionof pneumatic action,an organ with an occasional
octave coupler, that is a couplerwhich depressed a key anoctave higher or
lowerthan theoneoriginally struck, wassometimes met with. In the pioneerorgan
built ...
George Laing Miller, 1969
5
Louis Vierne: Organist of Notre-Dame Cathedral
The Grand-Orgue sub-octave coupler would transform the [4'] Prestant into a
small 8' Diapason, thinner than the real 8' Diapason and very useful for certain
solo effects or combinations. The 8' Trompette would become a 16' Bombarde
that ...
6
The Making of the Victorian Organ
3 It should be recorded that, although Smith's octave coupler of 1824 may have
been the first example of a manual octave coupler in England, the Harris &
Byfield organ in St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, had possessed a type of pedal octave ...
Nicholas Thistlethwaite, 1999
7
The Cambridge Guide to Orchestration
Octave coupler: transfers the coupled division either one octave up (super-octave
coupler or down (sub-octave coupler). The console also has stops, each of which
is connected to a valve (or to a device with a similar function, depending on ...
8
The Cambridge Companion to the Organ
Table 18.1 Combination Pedals at St Ouen, Rouen From left to right Pedal
Couplers Reeds or'Jeux de Combinaison' Sub-octave couplers Swell Pedal
Couplers to GO Sub-octave coupler Tremulant Coupler Super-octave coupler
Coupler ...
Nicholas Thistlethwaite, Geoffrey Webber, 1998
9
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Also double octave, 2 octaves; at the octave, to be perf. octave higher than written
; in octaves, to be perf. with each note doubled one or more octaves above or
below. octave coupler. Device on org. or hpd. with which note struck is doubled
an ...
10
Organa Britannica: Organs in Great Britain 1660-1860 : a ...
Add: Double Dulciana, 42 pipes, full Dulciana scale Fifteenth, 42, 1 1 inch
Sesquialtra, 3 ranks, 1 1 ditto, small Cornopean, 42, full scale Enlarge Great
organ and add Cremona to fiddle G, 35 pipes, Octave coupler up Swell, Octave
coupler ...
