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DICTIONARY OF ORGAN STOPS. 27
CLEAR FLUTE—4 ft.
Invented by Messrs. Kirtland & Jardine, of Manchester. The pipes,
which are of wood and nearly square in shape, are open and voiced with
an inverted mouth on the narrow side. Sometimes they are not nicked
at all. The block is of the German pattern i.e., as in the Gedeckt
wedge-shaped, owing to which device the wind is supposed to undergo
compression as it reaches the mouth. The stop is copiously winded ; the
tone is clear, dour and hooting, of a type which scarcely blends well, and
which does not generally appeal to the listener as particularly musical.
Beeston Parish Church, Notts. ; St. Peter, Manchester. Scale : CC 4 ft.,
3! in. x 24 in.
Clochettes—(Fr.) = Bells. See Carillons.
Communicanten-Glocke—A bell employed as a signal to intending
communicants to approach the altar, just as the Sacring bell is
now so employed. At Walschleben, near Erfurt, it was sounded
in the organ.
Compensation Mixture — Compensating Mixture, Corroborating
Mixture.
(1) Invented by Herr Musik-direktor Wilke of Neu Ruppin, and first
introduced at St. Catherine, Salzwedel, by T. Turley, in 1838, as a
repeating pedal Mixture of V ranks (3^ ft. ; 2§- ft. ; 2 ft; i£ ft.; and 1 ft,).
The stop was intended to lend a decisive intonation to pedal notes in
rapid passages. Of recent years the difficulty of securing promptitude ot
speech in pedal pipes has been solved by the use of beards for flue
pipes and of pneumatic starters for large reed pipes. (2) A soft Mixture
intended to represent the natural harmonics in which the organ, in
comparison to orchestral instruments, is deficient. This type of Mixture
is sometimes named Corroborating Mixture. A Compensating Mixture of
VI ranks occurs on the Pedal organ, and a Corroborating Mixture of V
ranks (string-toned) on the second subdivision of the Swell organ in the
organ designed by Dr. Audsley for the St. Louis Exposition of 1904 (Art
Organ Co., Los Angelos).
Concert Flute—Orchestral Flute.
sometimes 8 ft.
(Ger.) Konzerflote. 4 ft.
Generally on the Solo organ. An instance occurs on the Great at St.
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Margaret, Westminster (Walker). Though originally identical with the
German Vienna Flute, there is now no special signification attached to the
name. It might be (1) Flauto Traverso {q.v.); (2) Harmonic Flute
(powerful) ; (3) Large open wood stop of the Tibia Major type ; (4) A
clear-toned Flute of the Waldflote type.
CONE DIAPASON—See Cone Gamba.