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9° DICTIONARY OF ORGAN STOPS
corresponds to a small-scaled Major Bass or wood Violon. Ulm Miinsler ;
•Gewandhaus, Leipzig (Walcker).
Harmonium—A free reed stop, very rarely found under this name, is
identical with Clavaeoline or Physharmonika.
Harp-^A stringed instrument introduced by Schwarbrook as an organ stop
into the instrument at St. Michael, Coventry (1733).
Harp /Eoline—Harp ^Eolone. See ^Eoline, also Kerophone.
Ha/u/fclboy—Hautbois. See Oboe.
'Hedeiaphone— (Gr.) ySovri = pleasure, fiovfj = voice.
A stop invented by Mr. Hope-Jones, and consisting of metallic plates
set into vibration by an alternating current of air. The tone resembled
that of gongs. No example exists, but a specimen was exhibited at a
lecture delivered by Mr. Hope-Jones at Birkenhead.
Heertrummel— (Ger.) Heer (prefix) = military; Trommel = drum.
Barfusskirche, Erfurt; Schlossorgel, Dresden; St. Gotthard, Hildesheim.
The organ at Sondershausen contained Rechte-Heertrommel (= right
ihand drum).
Hellpfeife— Hellflote. (Ger.) Hell = clear. Signifies either Campana
or Sharp Mixture.
'Helper—A stop, the function of which was to assist the speech, or
improve the tone, of some other stop or stops. A Helper was
introduced by Bridge at Christ Church, Spitalfields (1730). The
bass of the second Diapason, being stopped, was accompanied in
its speech by Principal pipes. The Bass Flute 8 ft, was formerly
regarded as the Helper to the Bourdon 16 ft., and a Hohlflote or
Coupling Flute formed a Helper to the German Gamba.
A curious device for facilitating promptitude of speech was occasionally
;adopted in Germany. Attached to the outside of a Violone pipe, just
-above the mouth, was a short stopped pipe body (no mouth). Such wind
as blew on the outside of the pipe lip, served to throw the air column in
this into vibration, the note thereby induced materially aiding the speech
of the main pipe. Various forms of self-contained Helpers have been
devised by Mr. Hope-Jones. In one instance the block of a wooden pipe
was pierced with a hole, to the underside of which was attached a sort of
hanging trap-door or oval pallet. As the wind entered the pipe this
pendant door was intended to close with some force and so set the column
of air in the pipe into vibration, thus relieving the wind at the lip of a
large share of its initial work. The idea is highly ingenious, but whether
:such a device would be satisfactory in operation is more than doubtful.
HOBOE— (Ger.). See Oboe.