A comprehensive dictionary of organ stops - Allen Organ Studio of ...
A comprehensive dictionary of organ stops - Allen Organ Studio of ...
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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.