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DICTIONARY OF ORGAN STOPS. 1 35<br />

Messing-Regal— (Ger.) Messing = brass. 16 ft. ; 8 ft.<br />

Possessed inverted conical tubes, fashioned <strong>of</strong> brass.<br />

Scharf-Regal— (Ger.) Scharf = sharp.<br />

A Regal <strong>of</strong> sharp incisive tone, similar to the Messing-Regal.<br />

Trichter-Regal— (Ger.) Trichter = funnel.<br />

These pipes were surmounted by funnels <strong>of</strong> various shapes and sizes.<br />

Sometimes they were straight sometimes inverted-conical, sometimes<br />

like those <strong>of</strong> the Cor Anglais, occasionally even with three Or four<br />

cones, alternately inverted, and rising one above the other.<br />

Virgin-Regal—Virginal. (Ger.) Jungfern-Regal. 8 ft. ; 4 ft. Schloss<br />

Orgel, Hessen ; St. Peter, Gorlitz (Casparini) ; Lutheran Church,<br />

Elbigen, Materburg ; Konigsberg Cathedral ; St. Dominico,<br />

Prague.<br />

The origin <strong>of</strong> this name is doubtful. There are two possible explana-<br />

tions <strong>of</strong> the use <strong>of</strong> the word virgin. They are based on the facts (1) that<br />

the instrument was used to accompany the Angelus, a hymn to the<br />

B. V. M., (2) that it was played upon by young maidens. Mr. T. L.<br />

Southgate, an eminent authority on these matters, in a letter to the<br />

author expressed his preference for the second view.* Subsequently<br />

the name was applied to a stringed instrument.<br />

Regula—(Lat.) = a stop. Regula Primaria. See Primaria.<br />

Reim—(Ger.) Reim = rhyme. The derivation is obscure. 16 ft.<br />

Occurs at Bremen Cathedral, as a pedal Trombone.<br />

Resonant Bass—Resonant Cube.<br />

From time to time attempts have been made to reduce the height <strong>of</strong><br />

pedal pipes by enlarging their width, or by employing reeds with short<br />

length resonators. One <strong>of</strong> the first attempts was made by a watch-maker<br />

<strong>of</strong> Breslau, F. Benke by name. He employed reeds with diminutive<br />

resonators—a perfectly feasible idea. Various boxes and cubes have also<br />

been made. See Diaphone and Pyramidon.<br />

Resulta>n.t» Bass—See Acoustic Bass.<br />

* The German name for the stop is the Jungfern-Regal. In the writer's copy <strong>of</strong> the<br />

German New Testament, the synonymous word, Jungfrau, is employed to designate<br />

the B. V. M. If it can be proved that in neither <strong>of</strong> the two cases have the words<br />

commonly been used interchangeably, then the evidence would seem to bear against the<br />

former interpretation, given above. But this theory is advanced only tentatively.

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