Re: organ - off topic

[Frauke Jurgensen]

Some organs have a toy stop emulating bagpipes, which is a single lever that 
activates two drone pipes (reeds): they are either on continuously, or off. And 
organ tuners commonly use a key weight to depress individual keys while they 
are tuning, if they have to tune without an assistant. There are contemporary 
organ pieces that use multiple key weights for special effects. 

> On 1 Oct 2020, at 10:37, J Martin Rushton <martinrushton56@btinternet.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> "the church built around many organs" - I like your priorities!  I got in 
> trouble once for similarly suggesting that the purpose of a cathedral was to 
> support the bell tower (we were in the ringing chamber at the time). :-o
> 
> On 01/10/2020 10:02, Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote:
>> Hi Gianmaria,
>> Am 01.10.20 um 10:32 schrieb Gianmaria Lari:
>>> Sorry if I ask this question here. I do it as usual because I have a lot of 
>>> consideration for the people who write on this group and I'm sure someone 
>>> can help me.
>>> 
>>> I'm curious to know if a pipe organ (mechanical) can have a sustain pedal 
>>> and a sostenuto pedal like a piano. I had a look online but I have not been 
>>> able to find it.
>> Not that I know of.
>> Or, to be more precise:
>>  * The _soft_ pedal (left, una corda) does indeed have a rough
>>    equivalent on many organs, namely the "Schweller":
>>    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swell_box
>>  * The _sostenuto_ pedal (middle) can, as far as I know, only be faked
>>    using mechanical devices holding down some keys. And of course, keys
>>    may be stuck also without the player intending it.
>>  * The _damper_ pedal (right, sustain) is built-in to most organs by
>>    virtue of the acoustics of the church build around many organs,
>>    drowning the music in a sea of lingering pitches ;-)
>> Lukas
> 
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> J Martin Rushton MBCS
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