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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
* * A New Pipe Organ in Kimball Hall. * *
A
MAGNIFICENT
INSTRUMENT
WHICH
EMBODIES
The Kimball pipe organs have rapidly
attained high rank wherever erected—
wherever heard. The handsome instru-
ment just placed in Kimball Hall,Chicago,
and which was formally dedicated last
Monday night by Harrison M. Wild,
testifies further to the Kimball Co.'s ad-
vancement in this special field. It is not
only, as the illustrations shows, attractive
in appearance, but its tonal volume and
quality is unique. Its power, purity, deli-
cacy and color are revealed in the various
stops, which were cleverly manipulated by
Mr. Wild in Guilmant's Sonata Op. 42;
Bach's Toccata and Fugue, D Minor; Wag-
ner's Tannhauser march; Wach's Pastorale
and Ketterer's duo for piano and organ,
in themes from Faust with Mr. Leibling.
The latter also contributed some excellent
nunbers in his usual masterly style on the
Kimball grand piano.
The new Kimball organ is not only one
of the finest instruments in the West, but
it merits especial notice as being also a
pneumatic self-playing organ.
The mechanism embodies entirely new
principles of pneumatics, and for once
electricity has been abandoned for the use
of an infinitely cheaper and more easily
obtained element—air. What is techni-
cally termed a pneumatic is nothing more
than a miniature bellows varying in size
from an inch and a half long, the smallest,
to an occasional one four inches in length.
These bellows, or pneumatics rather, are
connected with one another by tubes and
by collapsing or expanding, according to
the function desired by the operator, they
act as substitutes for levers and control the
entire mechanical action of stops, pedals
and manuals, and the stop action, whether
used by a manual player or automatically,
is wonderfully simplified in making com-
binations. A special feature is a crescendo
pedal responding to a touch of the foot,
Georg Rcnschcl
The Eminenv instructor
Says: "I hav t much
pleasure in adding ~ "
name to those of thvr
many who consider the
Kimball Piano an excel-
lent one.''
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MANY NOVEL CONSTRUCTIVE FEATURES.
and gives any amount of tone from a faint
piano gradually up to the forte limit.
The music comes in perforated narrow
sheets, and includes anything frcm a pop-
ular song to an orchestra score. No tech-
nical ability is required to operate it, other
than place the music roll in its receptable
and draw a stop which starts an ingenious
little air motor to unwinding the roll.
When the piece is. finished the motor re-
verses and re-winds the roll for a repetition
or the insertion of a new piece. With such
an instrument the possibilities are almost
unlimited, as the operator, if he choose,
can become the director of an orchestra,
and it is quite certain no director could
have his various instruments under such
control in attack and phrasing.
The speaking of the pipes is caused by
a suction draught through holes in a short
strip of wood. When a perforation in the
paper comes over a hole, the pipe is acted
upon as though a key were depressed in the
ordinary manner of playing. The strip of
wood has fifty-eight holes—one for each
note on the manual. An entire symphony
could be played, as there is no limit to
the length of the perforated music, and
the same is but eight inches wide.
The specifications of the new organ are
as follows:
Scale of CC to C, 61 notes; scale of pedals
CCC to F, 30 notes.
12
13
14
15
Flute Harmonique, 4 feet.
Flautina,
2 ."
Dolce Cornet, 3 ranks,
Oboe and Bassoon, 8 "
PKDAL ORGAN.
61 Pipes.
61
183
61
16 tl
8 ••
16 Bourdon,
17 Viohncello,
30
30
Total
997
COUPLERS AND MECHANICAL ACCESSORIES.
18
20
22
24
26
28
Swell to Grtat
19 Swell to G. Octaves
21 Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
23 Motor Starter
Tremolo
Locking Comb Great 1 25 L. Comb Swell 1
Locking Comb Great 2 27 L. Comb Swell 2
29 Automatic Re-Roll
Automatic Motor
PET AL MOVEMENTS— ADJUSTABLE COMBINATIONS.
30 Great Forte
31 Swell Forte
32 Great Piano
34 Balanced Swell
36 Reversible 21
33 Swell Piano
35 BalancedCrescendo
Q. H. Campbell Returns Home.
[Special to The Review.]
Denver. Col., Nov. 8, 1897.
George H. Campbell, of the Knight-
Campbell Music Co., is just home from an
extended Eastern trip. Mr. Campbell was
in New York during the exciting days just
previous to election, and says it was worth
the trip simply to see the crowds and the
various devices for electioneering purposes.
Incidentally he says he purchased six cars
of pianos for the holiday trade, all of which
are on the way here. He is thus enabled
to take advantage of the present cheap
freight rates.
WINNING ITS WAY TO FAME
GREAT ORGAN.
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2
3
4
5
6
7
Open Diapason,
Gamba,
Melodia,
Dulciana,
Principal,
Flute D'Amour,
F fteenth,
8 feet.
8 "
8 "
8 "
4 "
4 "
2
"
16
"
6i Pipes.
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6i "
6i «
6i "
6i "
SWELL ORGAN.
8
8
9
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Bourdon Ba«s. )
Bourdon.Treble, \
Violin Diapason,
Stopped Diapason,
Salicional,
8 "
8 "
3 "
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6i
6i
6i
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