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136 DICTIONARY OF ORGAN STOPS.
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Retreating Reed.
A variety of reed stop experimentally tried by
German builders, and also by Mr. Hope Jones, to
whom the above name is due. In the retreating reed
the tongue is fixed on the inner side of a frame cor-
responding to the ordinary shallot. An experimental
model was shown at a lecture delivered in Edinburgh
before the Incorporated Society of Musicians.
Retusa—See Vox Retusa.
Ripieno—(It.) = chorus.
Mixture work.
An Italian term for
Rohr-Bordun—See Rohrflote.
Rohrflote- Rohr Gedeckt. (Fr.) Flute-a-
Chemine'e. (Eng.) Chimney Flute. Anglice
Rohrflute. (Ger.) Rohr = reed. 8 ft.; also
16 ft.; 4 ft. ; rarely 2 ft.
The original Rohrflote was a metal pipe, covered
at the top with a flat lid, from the centre of which
rose a narrow tube or chimney. The similarity of
tube to a reed (not organ reed) occasioned the
of the stop, which, then, has no connection
with any supposed reediness of tone, as some writers
have imagined. The tone of the Rohrflote is brighter
and less thick than that of a pipe entirely stopped.
As made by the old English builders, Snetzler in
particular, fashioned of thin metal with wide chimneys
and lightly blown, the stop yielded a tone frequently
of the most charming character {e.g., St. Andrew,
Nottingham ; Snetzler organ rebuilt by Conacher).
The pipes were tuned by the highly unsatisfactory
method of shading the mouth with long ears (see
Bell Gamba). The pipe here illustrated, however,
displays ears of ordinary shape, and a sliding
"canister" top for tuning purposes. Now-a-days, the
metal chimneys are generally dispensed with, and the
Rohrflote is, to all intents and purposes, identical
with the pierced Lieblich Gedeckt. The chimney
is formed by the stopper handle, and the stopper
itself, lined with cork, is fitted into the pipe. In
this manner the pipes are more easily and rapidly
made, and more satisfactorily tuned. The old