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14° DICTIONARY OF ORGAN STOPS.
some interest infused into it. It is generally made of spotted metal.
With regard to the question of slotting the Salicional, the custom of
English builders varies much. The majority slot the Salicional and not
the Dulciana. But the Salicionals of Mr. Lewis, which may, perhaps, be
said to represent the ideal type, are not usually slotted. At any rate the
aim of the voicer should be to render the stop stringy, but neither keen
nor horny. Some builders erroneously accord the name to what is vir-
tually a soft String Gamba. The Salicionals made within the past few
years by Messrs. Conacher are virtually a very pleasant type of Viole
Sourdine. Attention has recently been drawn to a variety of Salicional
which was supposed to speak somewhat as a Quintaton, though composed
of open pipes.
— " though an
The author was informed that an example of this variety
imperfect specimen "—existed at the Lutheran Church,
Leman Street, E. (Walcker). On visiting this instrument he found that,
heard in the interior of the box, the Salicional spoke the octave very
distinctly with the ground tone, but that the Twelfth was in no way prominently
developed. The type of Salicional is neither known to German
organ builders, nor mentioned in Allihn's work. If it existed at all, the
octave was presumably likewise included, and the effect would possibly be
not unlike that of a badly voiced or overblown Violone, which sometimes
performs the same trick. But the said species of Salicional most probably
owes its genesis to some rather vague and purposeless remarks of Hamel,
who, whilst seemingly reviewing the classes of organ tone in the strictly
orthodox and conventional manner, appears to group together the Quintaton
and the Salicional under the same category. A double-mouthed Salicional
occurs in the specification of the organ at Lund Cathedral, Sweden. The
Contra Salicional forms an ideal Choir organ double. The 4 ft. Salicional,
generally known as Salicet, is rare in the country. It is usually found on
the Choir organ or in the Swell of small instruments. St. Katherine's
Convent, Queen's Square, W. (Beale & Thynne). Scale.—A Lewis 8 ft.
specimen measured at CC 3! in. in diameter, the mouth being \\ in. wide
and cut up § in. It was provided with a bridge.
SAN FT—(Ger.) = soft.
Sanftflote = Vienna Flute, Flauto Amabile, or Lieblich Flote.
Sanftgedackt = Still Gedackt.
SAXOPHONE— 16 ft.
A stop imitative of the instrument named after Sax, its inventor. The
quality of tone is difficult to define. It partakes of the Clarinet, Bassoon,,
and 'Cello. The name, Saxophone, is applied by Mr. Casson to the 16 ft.
Clarinets (tenor C compass) in his organs. It is claimed that organists,
unaccustomed to the Double Clarinet, are apt to take for granted that any
stop bearing the familiar name Clarinet is of unison pitch. Chalumeau,