Organ Building for Amateurs
by
Mark Wicks
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| ISBN-13/EAN: | 978-1-902222-21-9 |
| ISBN-10: | 1-902222-21-0 |
| Title: | Organ Building for Amateurs |
| Author: | Mark Wicks |
| Price: | €54.95 |
| Description: | This book contains details of how to make the various parts of a pipe organ, including, the key and stop action, key-boards, pipes, bellows and the case. It also contains information on defects and their cures, and on tuning. |
| Pages: | viii 220 |
| Availability: | In Stock |
| Format: | Hard Back (Library Quality Cloth) A5 |
| Illustrations: | 208 b&w, fold out plates |
| Published: | 2004, rev. 2011 |
| Edition: | New edition of 1887 edition |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Bardon Enterprises |
| Sample Page: |  |
| Cover: |  |
Biography of Mark WicksWicks, Mark. Civil service clerk. b. Southwark, London, England, 1852; d. Croydon, 1935. Biographical information courtesy of www.organ-biography.info © 2024 |
Table of contents :-
- I. Tools and appliances-specifications new method of making pipes.
- II. Wood pipes.
- III. Pipes of metal-casting bench and casting box - metal for pipes - melting metal - necessary tools - scale for cutting metal for pipes-formation of sheet metal into pipes.
- IV. Reed pipes.
- V. Sound-board, wind-chest, pallets, etc.
- VI. The bellows.
- VII. The building frame and manual action.
- VIII. The key-board.
- IX. The stop action and couplers.
- X. The pedal organ : sound-board, and pedal key-board.
- XI. Pedal action : coupler great to pedals.
- XII. The swell, etc.-venetian swell-grid=978-1-902222-21-9&iron swell-box swell-tremlant.
- XIII. Voicing and toning - defects and their remedies.
- XIV. Tuning.
- XV. The case-pipe decorations.
- XVI. Defects generally-list of stops and their combinations-additional specifications.
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