Tabs Vs. Drawstops? Options

[abennett]

One of the most (in)famous examples of this is at the Kelvingrove Gallery in Glasgow.

The other oddity with this organ is that the thumb pistons are in a sort of lozenge shape, so they take more careful pushing, rather than the usual lunge into the unknown with the thumb.

When I last played this organ I seemed to remember them as like one of the sweets you get in the liqourice? allsorts!

[diapason]

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Now...THAT'S a tab layout if ever there was one!!

[BerkshireMum]

Wow!!! If that's a pipe organ I dread to think of the weight of the pipes! How on earth would you remember which tab was which?

[hello_cello]

Diapason, i think this beats yours (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)
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now really why would the organist need a phone??..........................................^^
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[Holz Gedeckt]

H_C: Your inbox is full!

[diapason]

Wow!!! If that's a pipe organ I dread to think of the weight of the pipes! How on earth would you remember which tab was which?

BASICALLY - the white ones are Flues (Flutes, Tibias, Diapasons, Strings), the red ones are reeds and brass, the yellow ones are string celestes.

Not every tab has a rank of pipes to itself. The instrument is unified which is the reason for a proportion of the organ world to look down its nose at this type of theatre/cinema organ.

If you find a particular stop name, say 8' Tuba Horn on one manual, and you also find the same stop name allocated to another manual(s) as well, then it is the same rank of pipes which is accessible from each of those manual.........in a nutshell.

Also, this type of instrument is best used for popular entertainment music - WITH ALL THE TREMULANTS WOBBLING AWAY LIKE JELLIES.

Sorry, but I LOVE 'EM (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

I play classical organ as well to re-dress the balance.

[Holz Gedeckt]

Wow!!! If that's a pipe organ I dread to think of the weight of the pipes! How on earth would you remember which tab was which?

Most of it will be on the "extension" system though, so not as many pipes as you might think. Still, the console looks great fun though, and I'm sure it would be great to play! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[diapason]

You're right H C - it does beat "mine" - it is the largest pipe organ in the world in Atlantic City Auditorium.
Built by midmer-Losh, it has NEVER all worked at once, an it is only in the last few years that a group of enthusiasts armed with a large sum of money from the city, set to and really got the thing back into working order.

It is something like 275 ranks of pipes and I think that's an under-estimation without looking it up.

The phone is to connect to the projection box or the directors office.

Many years ago one of the 64' bass pipes cyphered. There was panic in the streets as the vibrations built up. People thought it was an earthquake brewing!!

Bit bigger than ya home plug-in!!

Wow!!! If that's a pipe organ I dread to think of the weight of the pipes! How on earth would you remember which tab was which?

Most of it will be on the "extension" system though, so not as many pipes as you might think. Still, the console looks great fun though, and I'm sure it would be great to play! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

H G - yes, great fun to play. Stockport Town Hall has one very similar......Wurlitzer.........with lots of previously mentioned "awful sound effects" - glockenpiels, xylophone, marimba, chimes, castanets, tambourines, sleigh bells.....etc., except they are not EFFECTS, they are the real instrument played from the manuals.

I play there from time to time.......paradise!!

[hello_cello]

Ah right. I dont really think it would be enjoyable to play that, as the brain power it must take to allocate a certain stop, remember what pistsons etc... not to mention have to play something on the bottom (bombard?) and top (echo?) manuals at the same time if ever a piece needed it.