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DICTIONARY OF ORGAN STOPS. 95<br />

peculiar, with a beautiful "bloom" in the tenor and middle octaves.<br />

There was an example in the first Hope-Jones <strong>organ</strong> at<br />

St. George, Hanover Square, W. Scale—Kalliope, 4 ft. tone.<br />

CC, 4 in. ; T. C, t\ in. ; Mid. C, 1^ in. Mouth bearded, and<br />

the upper lip left as low as possible without the stpp developing<br />

into a Cor de Nuit.<br />

Kammer—In old German <strong>organ</strong>s a term signifying that the<br />

stop to the name <strong>of</strong> which it was prefixed was tuned to<br />

" Kammerton " (chamber tone), a tone in pitch below<br />

"Chorton" (choir tone). Such <strong>stops</strong> (Kammerflote,<br />

Kammergedackt, etc.) were tuned a tone lower than<br />

the rest <strong>of</strong> the <strong>organ</strong> and used for instrumental<br />

accompaniment.<br />

Keraulophon-(Gr. ).<br />

pipe ; (jxovri = voice. 8 ft.<br />

;<br />

KEpag = horn ; avXoc =<br />

abroad also 16 ft.<br />

On the Continent, a variety <strong>of</strong> Basset Horn, the English<br />

Keraulophon being quite unknown. The Kuerl<strong>of</strong>on some-<br />

times found in Spanish <strong>organ</strong>s (e.g., Seville Cathedral,<br />

Aquilino Amezua) is probably a cross between a Dolce and a<br />

Salicional, or merely a species <strong>of</strong> Waldflote. The English<br />

stop was invented by Gray & Davison, and first inserted<br />

in 1843 in their <strong>organ</strong> at St. Paul, Knightsbridge, W.<br />

The story runs that the stop was fortuitously discovered<br />

through a man who was carrying some pipes on his<br />

shoulder knocking one on to a nail, and so piercing a hole<br />

at the top. This, <strong>of</strong> course, is mere hearsay, but "se non evero,<br />

i ben trovato." Dr. Hinton (Catechism <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Organ</strong>) gives the<br />

reputed inventor's name as William Horn, without, however,<br />

detailing the circumstances above mentioned. The Keraulophon<br />

is <strong>of</strong> large Dulciana scale, the peculiar feature <strong>of</strong> the<br />

pipes being a round hole or slot <strong>of</strong> fair size in the pipe about<br />

one diameter from the top. It is tuned with a slide, through<br />

which the hole sometimes extends. The Keraulophon emits<br />

a peculiar s<strong>of</strong>t and muffled tone, though some builders<br />

erroneously make it as loud as a powerful Gamba. It is one<br />

<strong>of</strong> the few <strong>stops</strong> legitimately "horny" in character. The<br />

pipes, being very delicately adjusted, are readily thrown <strong>of</strong>f<br />

their speech by dust, whilst great difficulty is also experienced<br />

in a small swell box in causing them to " stand " well and<br />

speak without fluctuation or " wobbling." The stop is to be Keraulopho<br />

found in many <strong>of</strong> Messrs. Gray & Davison's <strong>organ</strong>s, but it is<br />

rapidly becoming obsolete.

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