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DICTIONARY OF ORGAN STOPS. 73
Flote -(Ger.) = Flute.
Flue — Fluework, or sometime Flutework. (Ger.) Labialstimmen
(= lip-stops).
A collective name for those pipes possessed of a flue or wind-way and
mouth, differing from those in which tone is produced by a vibrating
tongue of metal (reed pipes). The term Flutework is not happy, as
Gambas and stops other than those of Flute tone are included under the
heading. In flue pipes, as demonstrated by Cavaille'-Coll in 1840 (Etudes
Experimentales), and independently by Mr. Hermann Smith in 1865, and
Herr Sonreck of Cologne in 1876, the tone is produced by a free reed of
air, or "seroplastic reed," rapidly vibrating at the mouth and setting the
column of air in the pipe into motion. This, of course, is opposed to the
conventional theory of the splitting into two of the current of wind by the
lip, whether sharp or thick.
Flue Clarinet, Flue Cor Anglais, Flue Euphone, Flue Oboe
(Ger.) Labial-Klarinette, etc.
The author once saw what is termed by its maker (a German builder)
a flue Clarinet. It was an open wooden pipe, with a very low and sharp-cut
inverted lip. In tone it could hardly be said to imitate a Clarinet any
more than an Oboe, what it most resembled was "a bee-in-a-bottle." Its
adjustment was such as to render it liable to be thrown off its speech by a
very slight accumulation of dust. Various tones, however, can be built up,
for solo purposes, compositely. As an experiment, let the reader sound
middle C of the Great organ Hohlfiote 8 ft., together with middle C of the
Choir organ Harmonic Flute 4 ft. In some organs a Gamba tone will be
distinctly audible. One of the most valuable of timt>re-creaxing stops is
the Quintaton. In the remarkable organ built by the Austin Organ Co.,
of U.S.A., for the Angelus Co. (Mr. J. Herbert Marshall) at Regent House,
Regent Street, W., may be heard a Flue Clarinet stop, built up of the
Quintaton 8 ft.; and Viole d'Orchestre 8 ft. Herr Weigle, of Stuttgart,,
has also used Quintaton and Viola to form a flue Oboe (Military Church,
Strassburg), and Quintaton and Fugara to form a flue Cor Anglais (Y.M.C.A.
Hall, Stuttgart). In the case of the Cor Anglnis the effect is remarkably
good. The Quintaton is voiced stronger than the Fugara. Herr Laukhuff,.
of Wiekersheim, Wiirttemburg (who holds Herr Weigle's English patent
rights for the Stentorphon), has recently (March, 1905) taken up the manu-
facture and voicing of these labial reed stops, viz. :— >
Labial Clarinet—Viola and Quintaton.
Labial Cor Anglais—Viola and Rohrflote.
Labial Eyphone—Viola and (soft) Flute
Labial Oboe—Violine and Quintaton.