MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS— THE ORGAN. 



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produced.) " It was to some of the bass pipes of the organ he 

 built for the Church of Attercliffe, near Sheffield, in the year 1827, 

 that Booth first applied his little invention. The lower notes of 

 the wood open diapason of the GGr manual were placed on a 

 small separate sound-board, and to the pull-down of each pallet 



he attached a small 

 circular bellows un- 

 derneath. From the 

 great organ sound- 

 board groove a con- 

 veyance conducts 

 wind into this bel- 

 lows, which, opening 

 downward, draws 

 the pallet with it. 

 These small bellows 

 Mr. Booth used to 

 call ' puff:- valves.' " 



Since Booth's ex- 

 periments in this di- 

 rection many Euro- 

 pean builders,among 

 them Cavailld - Coll, 

 of Paris, have con- 

 tributed to the appli- 

 cation of pneumat- 

 ics, with the most 

 remarkable results. 

 American builders 

 have not been be- 

 hindhand either in 

 adapting and im- 

 proving upon the in- 

 ventions of their con- 

 temporaries abroad, 

 and their work is to 

 be found illustrated 

 the magnificent 



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Fig. 15. — Sectional Vitcw of Organ in the Brooklyn 

 Tabernacle, illustrating the pneumatic and general action 

 principles embodied (erected 1891). The great organ key- 

 board in the above cut, also trackers and connections, are 

 indicated by A throughout. 



instruments erected 

 in various cities 

 throughout the 

 States. Jardine & 

 Sons are admitted a leadership by the fourscore and odd organ- 

 builders who constitute the business in the United States and the 

 British Dominion. The founder of this eminent house, George 

 Jardine, was born in Dartforth, England, November 1, 1801. 



