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The Recent Revolution in Organ Building

by George Laing Miller

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  1. 1Epigraph — Foreword
  2. 2Chapter I · Chapter II · Chapter III · Chapter IV · Chapter V · Cha…
  3. 3Chapter I — As It Was in the Beginning
  4. 4Chapter II — The Organ in the Nineteenth Century
  5. 5Chapter III — The Dawn of a New Era — The Pneumatic Lever
  6. 6Chapter IV — Pneumatic and Electro-Pneumatic Actions
  7. 7Tubular Pneumatics
  8. 8The Crying Need for Electric Action
  9. 9Description of the Electric Action
  10. 10Division of Organs
  11. 11Octave Couplers
  12. 12Chapter V — Stop-Keys
  13. 13Chapter VI — Radiating and Concave Pedal Boards
  14. 14Pedal Stop Control
  15. 15Chapter VII — Means of Obtaining Expression
  16. 16Sforzando Pedal — Double Touch
  17. 17Balanced Swell Pedal
  18. 18Swell Boxes
  19. 19Chapter VIII — A Revolution in Wind Supply
  20. 20Bellows Springs Versus Weights
  21. 21Individual Pallets
  22. 22Heavy Wind Pressures
  23. 23Mechanical Blowers
  24. 24Chapter IX — Transference of Stops
  25. 25Chapter X — The Production of Organ Tone
  26. 26Diapasons
  27. 27The Decline of Mixtures
  28. 28Flutes
  29. 29Strings
  30. 30Reeds
  31. 31Undulating Stops — Celestes
  32. 32Percussion Stops
  33. 33The Diaphone
  34. 34Chapter XI — Tuning
  35. 35Chapter XII — Progress of the Revolution in Our Own Country
  36. 36Chapter XIII — The Chief Actors in the Drama
  37. 37Charles Spachman Barker
  38. 38Aristide Cavaille-Coll
  39. 39Henry Willis
  40. 40Robert Hope-Jones
  41. 41Chapter XIV — How We Stand To-Day
  42. 42Automatic Players
  43. 43Organ in St. George’s Hall, Liverpool, Eng
  44. 44Organ in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris, France
  45. 45St. Paul’s Cathedral Organ, London, Eng
  46. 46Westminster Abbey Organ, London, Eng
  47. 47Organ in the Mansion of J. Martin White, Esq., Balruddery, Scotland
  48. 48Organ in Worcester Cathedral, England
  49. 49Organ in Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Conn
  50. 50Organ in St. Paul’s Cathedral, Buffalo, N. Y.
  51. 51Organ Known as the Hope-Jones Unit Orchestra, in the Paris Theatre,…
  52. 52Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City
  53. 53Organ in University of Toronto, Canada
  54. 54City Hall, Portland, Maine
  55. 55Liverpool Cathedral, England

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