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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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1different sets. This permitted division of the tracker board into six sections allowing six solo voices to be played at once. This invention could be used in an organ of two manuals or larger provided it contained a sufficient variety of orchestral stops. It produced beautiful color effects through combinations or different instrumental tone qualities.
3As this was a complicated mechanism only a few were made before the World War when production was stopped. One Orchestrator was placed in the home of Mr. Lamborne of Montclair, New Jersey, and another in the home of Mr. Arthur Curtis James of New York City.
5The idea, which Mr. Skinner originated, of using in player rolls small holes, which sometimes would play a note and sometimes a stop 21 is used today in this company's player rolls, and a maximum of three voices can be played at once. Three sections play five octaves and the pedal section plays three octaves.
7Among the important inventions and improvements of Mr. Skinner are the following:
9The Pitman windchest, 22 invented about thirty-eight years ago. This makes the stop action instantaneous. It is used by most of the principal builders in the United States, England, Germany and France, as it gives precision in changing from one tone color to another, is reliable, less expensive and more comfortable to build. Mr. Skinner wrote as follows to William Harrison Barnes in substantiation of his claim to this invention—"The Pitman windchest is the invention of your humble servant and was published for the first time in Audsley's Art of Organ Building p. 347 Vol. 2. I made this drawing for Audsley but he did not give me credit for it." 23
11The first variable pneumatic swell pedal made in the small organ exhibited in the foreign exhibition on [address hidden] in the early 1880's. 24
13Extremely rapid pneumatic key action. 25
15Some patents of the Skinner Organ Company are:
16Electro-pneumatic crescendo pedal—thirty-five years ago.
17Electro-pneumatic swell engine pedal—twenty-three years ago. 26
1921 Statement of George M. Catlin, Vice President, Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company, Inc.
2022 For a discussion of this invention see Barnes, William Harrison. Contemporary American Organ. 1930 Edition pp. 272 & 273.
2123 Barnes, William Harrison. Contemporary American Organ. 1933 Edition p. 283.
2224 Statement of William B. Goodwin, Lowell, Massachusetts, organ builder. Possibly the organ illustrated in the New England Magazine 1897 p. 494.
2325 Statement of Ernest M. Skinner.
2426 See Barnes, William Harrison. Contemporary American Organ. Whiffletree motor p. 117.
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