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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.

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