LONDON:
BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS
PREFACE.
In publishing this work, it is not my wish or intention to attempt to teach the Player how to use, the Maker how to build, or the Architect how to encase, the second instrument mentioned in the Bible, but to put before the descendants of Jubal that which may incite them to continue to improve the noble instrument, which the combined efforts of taste, science, and skill, have brought to its present degree of excellence.
JOHN NORBURY.
32, Gordon Square, London,
April, 1877.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| PAGE | |
| THE BOX OF WHISTLES | [1] |
| Introductory. | |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| THE ORGAN CASE | [2] |
| Division into Four Classes.—Subdivisions of ditto. | |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| WHAT A GOOD CASE SHOULD BE | [4] |
| Style not necessarily Gothic.—Renaissance Style.—Tin Pipes now seldom used.—An Organ Case need not correspond with the Style of Architecture of the Building.—English Cases during the last Hundred Years.—An Organ Case should be good.—Unequal Number of Towers.—Ponts.—Oak and other Woods.—Culs-de-Lampe.—Ornaments.—Arrangement of Pipes.—Arrangement of Towers. | |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE PIPES | [7] |
| Number of Pipes.—Not all of the Same Height.—Two Tiers of Pipes.—Oval and Circular Openings.—Pipes arranged in Perspective.—Carved Panels.—Inverted Pipes.—Double Pipes.—Projecting Mouths.—Fancy Mouldings on Pipes.—Pipes, gilt—diapered—painted—tin—bronzed.—Tubes of Reed Stops projecting horizontally.—Tuba at York. | |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| THE CHOIR ORGAN AS A SEPARATE CASE | [8] |
| As a Screen to the Player.—Choir Front in the Lower Part of Case. | |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| THE MINOR DETAILS OF AN ORGAN | [9] |
| Room in the Loft.—Loft should not be used as a Singing Gallery.—Reversed Key-boards.—Black Keys for Naturals, &c.—Rows of Stops, perpendicular, horizontal.—Varied Forms of Pedals.—Music Desk.—Lights.—Looking Glass.—Clock.—Carving between the Pipes.—Fox-tail Stop.—Electric and Pneumatic Actions. | |
| NOTES ON ORGANS AT HOME AND ABROAD. | |
| NOTES ON ENGLISH ORGANS | [10] |
| NOTES ON FRENCH ORGANS | [12] |
| NOTES ON BELGIAN ORGANS | [18] |
| NOTES ON DUTCH ORGANS | [22] |
| NOTES ON GERMAN ORGANS | [25] |
| NOTES ON SWISS ORGANS | [28] |
| NOTES ON ITALIAN ORGANS | [30] |