Mechanical Music Digest  Archives
You Are Not Logged In Login/Get New Account
Please Log In. Accounts are free!
Logged In users are granted additional features including a more current version of the Archives and a simplified process for submitting articles.
Home Archives Calendar Gallery Store Links Info

Spring Fundraising Drive In Progress. Please visit our home page to see this and other announcements: https://www.mmdigest.com     Thank you. --Jody

MMD > Archives > January 2008 > 2008.01.01 > 09Prev  Next


Aeolian 116-note Player Pipe Organ Console Tabs
By Jim Crank

Howard,  Bob Taylor is correct regarding that "Pedal Augment" switch.
It simply also coupled the low 12 Pedal notes up one octave, so you got
a 16' and 8' pitch of the same rank playing together.  It affected any
rank that was being played in the Pedal, not just one of them.  From
what I can learn, this came on some later organs and not the first ones,
before 1910 or so.  The diagram I have does not have this coupler; but
it is very easy to add to the switch stack.

Aeolian was not consistent with these players and it seems that some
evolution was always taking place.  Some have this and some do not.
If you want to e-mail me with your address, I have the wiring diagram
of the 116-58 note Aeolian player, and will send a copy to you.

Should you go off the deep end and get one of those 10-roll Concertola
players, I have those wiring and plumbing diagrams too.  Some are hard
to read; but these are the only blueprints I ever saw for that player.
It is extremely complicated.

Just to put something else about Aeolian tracker bar lists to rest,
years ago I came up with LCW to mean "Let's Confuse Welte" as a joke.
What these holes are for is to couple other added divisions in large
Aeolian organs: they operated coupler switches and were routed through
the reversible switch stack.  First time ON and second time OFF.  It
means "Couple to or from".  Certainly they were hand wired for the
particular organ that had added divisions.

From a 1928 issue of the American Organist, and thanks to Jim
Weisenborne for finding this.

  G = Great
  S = Swell
  L = Solo
  C = Choir
  W = Antiphonal
  E = Echo
  X = Chapel or Solo Echo
  Z = Great Echo
  O = Orchestral

Jim Crank


(Message sent Tue 1 Jan 2008, 20:01:08 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.)

Key Words in Subject:  116-note, Aeolian, Console, Organ, Pipe, Player, Tabs

Home    Archives    Calendar    Gallery    Store    Links    Info   


Enter text below to search the MMD Website with Google



CONTACT FORM: Click HERE to write to the editor, or to post a message about Mechanical Musical Instruments to the MMD

Unless otherwise noted, all opinions are those of the individual authors and may not represent those of the editors. Compilation copyright 1995-2024 by Jody Kravitz.

Please read our Republication Policy before copying information from or creating links to this web site.

Click HERE to contact the webmaster regarding problems with the website.

Please support publication of the MMD by donating online

Please Support Publication of the MMD with your Generous Donation

Pay via PayPal

No PayPal account required

                                     
Translate This Page