A comprehensive dictionary of organ stops - Allen Organ Studio of ...
A comprehensive dictionary of organ stops - Allen Organ Studio of ...
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DOUBLE - TONGUEO<br />
REED —Double-tongued<br />
<strong>organ</strong> reeds appear to have<br />
been first experimentally<br />
tried by Herr Giesecke, <strong>of</strong><br />
Gottingen. Subsequently,<br />
however, they were practically<br />
applied by Mr. Hope-<br />
Jones for the first time<br />
at Worcester Cathedral<br />
(1896) and later at the<br />
McEwan Hall, Edinburgh.<br />
The large Tubas in these<br />
two instruments are furn-<br />
ished with wooden shallots<br />
(see Reed), each with two<br />
tongues fixed opposite to<br />
one another. They are<br />
voiced on 20 in. pressure.<br />
The Worcester example is<br />
<strong>of</strong> prodigious power, and<br />
very smooth, though not so<br />
refined in tone as a Willis<br />
Tuba, or as the Tuba<br />
Sonora in the same in-<br />
strument. It is open to<br />
question whether the results<br />
accruing from the use <strong>of</strong><br />
double-tongued reeds are at<br />
all commensurate with the<br />
trouble entailed in their con-<br />
struction and upkeep. It is,<br />
<strong>of</strong> course, true that the pro-<br />
vision <strong>of</strong> a second vibrator<br />
does materially amplify the<br />
volume <strong>of</strong> tone. * But it<br />
* But, for scientific reasons<br />
which cannot be entered into<br />
here, not to an extent at all pro-<br />
portionate to the intrinsic capacity<br />
<strong>of</strong> the second vibrator. In other<br />
words, a double-tongued reed is<br />
by no means twice as powerful as<br />
a single-tongued pipe.<br />
DICTIONARY OF ORGAN Sl'OPS. 6l<br />
Double-tongued Reed.