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Ayars, Contributions to the Art of Music in America by the Music Industries of Boston (1937) — the Squier, Farley, Rettberg, Rockwell and Elias Howe matter, 1937
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1The swell boxes, containing a patented sound insulator.
2The couplers are controlled by stop-tablets when few are used, and by toe studs when many are used.
3For modern reed tones, including the French horn, English horn, 32 foot Bombarde and others, pocket eschalots and thick weighted tongues are used for better tone quality and for keeping these stops in better tune.
5They have an orchestral flute stop patented February 6, 1924 and rights to certain developments of a French horn tone which George Audsley speaks of as follows:
7Very recently our attention has been directed to a lingual stop, labeled FRENCH HORN, which imitates the voice of the orchestral instrument more closely than any other organ stop known to us. This stop is the production of the Hook & Hastings Company, the esteemed organ builders of Kendall Green, Massachusetts. This stop differs in construction from any Horn pipe we have seen. While the Resonator is of the usual Trumpet form, it is surmounted by a pyramidal cap, soldered on, which is a novelty, so far as our knowledge extends, and which, we can readily understand, exerts a considerable mellowing effect on the tone in conjunction with the slot which admits of adjustment both at bottom and top.16
9The "flute" stop is so constructed that the wind sheet from the tubulator conduit passes across the orifice in the manner employed by the orchestral flute player to reproduce the character of the flute tone.17
11AEOLIAN-SKINNER ORGAN COMPANY, INC.
13The original organization was established in 1901, by Ernest M. Skinner, who had been with the George S. Hutchings Company, and in 1905 was incorporated with the help of Worcester capitalists, as the Ernest M. Skinner Organ Company. In 1919, by the financial help of Arthur Hudson Marks, the Skinner Organ Company was organized, succeeding the Ernest M. Skinner Organ Company.
15In 1920 the Steere Organ Company of Westfield, Massachusetts, was purchased by Arthur H. Marks, run independently for about a year and then was merged with the Skinner Organ Company, whose management operated the Steere factory. The Steere Organ
1716 Audsley, George Ashdown. Organs of the Twentieth Century, Chapter XVI, "Forms and Construction of Lingual Pipes" p. 466.
1817 Hook and Hastings Company. Pipe Organs for Municipal Halls, Memorials, Churches, Theatres, Schools, Lodges p. 23.
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