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DICTIONARY OF ORGAN STOPS. 59<br />

was nothing remarkable about the tone <strong>of</strong> the specimen pipes which<br />

the author recently heard at Herr Weigle's factory; indeed the tone<br />

seemed rather to labour at a disadvantage than to be improved. In<br />

the case <strong>of</strong> a pipe in the author's possession, made by another German<br />

builder on similar principles, the tone is far from satisfactory. Instances<br />

<strong>of</strong> the Doppelflote may be heard in this country at Central Hall,<br />

Birmingham; Lutheran Church, Whitechapel, E. (Walcker); St. Matthew,<br />

Westminster (made in Bavaria for the Rev. J. B. Cr<strong>of</strong>t's own West End<br />

<strong>organ</strong>) ; Derby Road Church, Nottingham (Conacher—a Waldfiote voiced<br />

in Germany). An extremely fine Doppelgedackt pipe in the author's<br />

possession, made by Voit <strong>of</strong> Durlach, Germany, bears the subjoined<br />

measurements : Mid. B pipe, stopped, 2

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