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  2. Pulling Out the Stops at Hartford's Austin Organs - AOL

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    In an era of digital simulation, when even a singer's voice can sound synthesized, an Austin organ is a beautiful anomaly: behemoths made of wood, glue, and wind, constructed using machines that ...

  3. Orgelbau Vleugels - Wikipedia

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    The Jülich organ contains accessories including thunder rolls, rain machine, and a croaking bullfrog. Vleugels also built new organs in the South German style in historic cases at Würzburg, Käppele (1991; 2/31) and Schäftlarn Benediktinerabtei (1996; 2/31). There were new directions in constructing cases using special materials - a glass ...

  4. Stop action magnet - Wikipedia

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    The stop action magnet, usually abbreviated to SAM, is an electromagnetic device used for the control of pipe organs and virtual pipe organs, and forms part of the organ's combination action. On a classical organ the device may be referred to as a drawstop solenoid.

  5. Crescendo pedal - Wikipedia

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    October 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Crescendo pedal of an Allen Protege AP-31 digital organ, indicated by the organist's right foot. A crescendo pedal is a large pedal commonly found on medium-sized and larger pipe organs (as well as digital organs ), either partially or fully recessed within the organ console .

  6. Richards, Fowkes & Co. - Wikipedia

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    They make historical-style mechanical-action pipe organs. The firm is located in rural Ooltewah, Tennessee , just outside Chattanooga and was founded in 1988 by Bruce Fowkes and Ralph Richards. The company has created 23 instruments, ranging from a one- manual meantone organ for Mercer University to a three-manual organ with 49 stops at ...

  7. Pipe organ - Wikipedia

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    The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called wind) through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard.Because each pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre, volume, and construction throughout the keyboard compass.

  8. Pipe organ tuning - Wikipedia

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    Organ pipes are so sensitive to temperature that the body heat of the organ tuner can affect the tuning. If one holds a small metal flue pipe briefly in one's hand and then returns it to the chest ( windchest ), its pitch (relative to a tuning reference) can be heard to change as the pipe returns to room temperature.

  9. The Home Depot's Viral 12-Foot Skeletons Are Back ... - AOL

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    The Home Depot's Viral 12-Foot Skeletons Are Back, Along with a Ton of Spooky Halloween Decor for 2024. Destinee Scott. ... $129 at home depot. 3. Home Accents Holiday Fog Machine.