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DICTIONARY OF ORGAN STOPS. 65<br />

Echo Gamtoa— 8 ft.<br />

A quiet Gamba <strong>of</strong> hard, cold tone. Formerly, a speciality <strong>of</strong> Messrs.<br />

Walker, who now, however, continue to apply the name to what is virtually<br />

a String Gamba, or Viole d' Orchestre. The Echo Gamba is almost<br />

invariably enclosed in a swell box.<br />

Effets d' Orage—(Fr.) Effet = effect. Orage = storm.<br />

See Storm Pedal.<br />

English Horn—See Cor Anglais, Double English<br />

Horn.<br />

Epistomium— (Lat.) = a Ventil.<br />

EUPHONE—Euphonium, Eyphone. (Gr.) eh = good.<br />

iphivri = sound. 1 6 ft. ; 8 ft.<br />

The first instance <strong>of</strong> the Euphone was that inserted at<br />

Beauvais Cathedral in 1827-29, in company with other free<br />

reed <strong>stops</strong> named Conoclyte and Terpomele. The pipes<br />

were cylindrical in body, terminating in<br />

a long cone. The Terpomele and the<br />

Euphone were adapted to expressive use<br />

by means <strong>of</strong> a device for varying the<br />

wind pressure. Subsequently, in 1830,<br />

Sebastian Erard introduced an expressive<br />

free reed, which he named Euphone, into<br />

his <strong>organ</strong> at the Tuileries Chapel Royal.<br />

The form <strong>of</strong> pipe he adopted was that<br />

utilised by M. Grenie" twenty years pre-<br />

viously. The popular opinion that Erard<br />

was the inventor <strong>of</strong> the Euphone is<br />

therefore inaccurate. The tongues were<br />

broad and thin, and the pipes were <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Grenie" pattern, shaped somewhat like a<br />

balloon with a slit near the top. When<br />

now made, which is but rarely, the pipes<br />

are <strong>of</strong> inverted conical shape. In tone<br />

the stop varies considerably. Usually it<br />

may be described as a sort <strong>of</strong> cross<br />

between a Cor Anglais, Bassoon and<br />

Clarinet. It is <strong>of</strong> gentle intonation. The<br />

Euphone was introduced into this country<br />

by Messrs. Kirkland & Jardine. St. Peter,<br />

Manchester (1856); Free Trade Hall,<br />

Manchester (1857).<br />

An example, though<br />

Euphone. an imperfect specimen, existed at the<br />

Fig. B—<br />

Euphone.

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