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The American History and Encyclopedia of Music, 1924
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1be found that which earlier writers would not have asked simply because it could not have been granted.
3There can be no question whatever but that composers in their efforts to give musical expression an ever increasing fulness, clearness and richness, will write for the different instruments quite up to the limit of their present powers of execution and interpretation, even perhaps pressing a little beyond. Musical instrument makers as well, recognizing the points in which the present forms of their instruments can be improved upon, will, even without the incitement from the composer labor for an advance on their own account. It may be felt that large progress in the variety of musical instruments and in the capacities of those already in use is hardly possible when one looks at the wealth of this field as it is displayed today. It must be admitted that certain instruments have reached a type which, with our present requirements, we accept as perfect. These will not change until the prevailing ideas and feelings of the time are altered wholly. When or how this may occur we cannot prognosticate.
5For a period of somewhat more than seventy-five years organ builders have brought out numberless inventions designed to make the organ a more easily handled instrument, and to render its forces more quickly and completely available. This has been accomplished by the use of pneumatic power, and later by a combination of pneumatic and electric energy in place of the purely mechanical action of earlier organs. To describe all of the various pneumatic and electro-pneumatic actions in use by the prominent builders of the present day is beyond the scope of this article. These actions are still the subjects of constant experimentation, and it is hardly possible to say that the final, most perfect type has been fixed. Each and every one of them have the general purpose named above. Adjustable combination pistons or pedals, as the case may be, are of great value and of universal application at the present time. There are many forms of these, but the principle involved in them all is the provid-
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