DOI Heft:
Nr. 108 (February, 1906)
DOI Artikel:A new salon organ
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26961#0507
A New Salon Organ
ORGUE DE SALON
DESIGNED BY J. BURR TIEEANY FOR THE ART ORGAN COMPANY
ANEW SALON ORGAN
The organ shown in illustration
above is called by the manufacturers an
“ Orgue de Salon.” The name has
apparently been chosen with the thought of differ-
entiating the Instrument from the usual type of
chamber organ. Too often the latter has been in
form a travesty of the sm aller old-fashioned church
organ. Manufacturers have somewhat neglected
the problems of form and appearance in a devotion
to the details of mechanism.
The aim of the Art Organ Company of this city
and Mr. J. Burr Tiffany, to whom must fall the
greatest share of personal credit, in producing this
instrument, has been to put new emphasis on the
more important element of tonal appointment.
The organ has a full compass pedal clavier and two
manual claviers of five octaves. A unique feature
is the introduction of the complete series of draw
stop knobs on both sides of the player’s desk,
enabling the performer to play any or all the manual
stops from either clavier. In the development of
tone every endeavour Iras been made to adapt the
quality of organ tone proper, of flutes, string tone
and orchestral reeds, to their function. A chamber
organ has the same mission as a concert organ,
within the limitations of the acoustics of a private
music room. To assertive power and sonority there
are here preferred refinement, delicacy and variety.
But it is the care that has been exercised on the
outward aspect of the instrument that demands
our notice; and it is certainly a pleasure to find a
well-considered design in an historic style of Orna-
ment taking the place of the conventional Supersti-
tion that organ pipes must be so boxed as to suggest
that they were origin all v planned for the Sunday-
school and had found their way into the music-
room by some ridiculous blunder. The dignity of
the church organ will gain as the other grows in
charm, and an appropriate handling of both is an
advance in goocl taste. The Renaissance style in
which the decoration has here been carried out is
successful in effect. But this freedom in handling
being once asserted, all styles are now available to
the designer.
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ORGUE DE SALON
DESIGNED BY J. BURR TIEEANY FOR THE ART ORGAN COMPANY
ANEW SALON ORGAN
The organ shown in illustration
above is called by the manufacturers an
“ Orgue de Salon.” The name has
apparently been chosen with the thought of differ-
entiating the Instrument from the usual type of
chamber organ. Too often the latter has been in
form a travesty of the sm aller old-fashioned church
organ. Manufacturers have somewhat neglected
the problems of form and appearance in a devotion
to the details of mechanism.
The aim of the Art Organ Company of this city
and Mr. J. Burr Tiffany, to whom must fall the
greatest share of personal credit, in producing this
instrument, has been to put new emphasis on the
more important element of tonal appointment.
The organ has a full compass pedal clavier and two
manual claviers of five octaves. A unique feature
is the introduction of the complete series of draw
stop knobs on both sides of the player’s desk,
enabling the performer to play any or all the manual
stops from either clavier. In the development of
tone every endeavour Iras been made to adapt the
quality of organ tone proper, of flutes, string tone
and orchestral reeds, to their function. A chamber
organ has the same mission as a concert organ,
within the limitations of the acoustics of a private
music room. To assertive power and sonority there
are here preferred refinement, delicacy and variety.
But it is the care that has been exercised on the
outward aspect of the instrument that demands
our notice; and it is certainly a pleasure to find a
well-considered design in an historic style of Orna-
ment taking the place of the conventional Supersti-
tion that organ pipes must be so boxed as to suggest
that they were origin all v planned for the Sunday-
school and had found their way into the music-
room by some ridiculous blunder. The dignity of
the church organ will gain as the other grows in
charm, and an appropriate handling of both is an
advance in goocl taste. The Renaissance style in
which the decoration has here been carried out is
successful in effect. But this freedom in handling
being once asserted, all styles are now available to
the designer.
ci