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I meandered out of my confort zone and looked into church organs. I stumbled on a church organ that had a "Resonace" division, what is the purpose of this division, I saw that their were only two organs that had this division. It sounded heavy of foundation stops, but the organist said it was shared by the pedal division.
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https://www.thediapason.com/sites/de...0613p26-28.pdf
"The Resonance division is a new concept
for Austin, its deployment in this
organ due to Bill Gray’s tonal design.
The Resonance Organ is composed of
the actual voices of the Pedal Organ, but
adding 29 pipes, extending from 32 to
61 pipes per rank. Mechanically, it has
been possible utilizing an almost forgotten
chest design: the Austin Duplex
Chest Mechanism. The voices are full,
round and deliciously extravagant. The
Diapason (a generous 40 scale) was
voiced with leathered lips. This practice,
once frowned upon, delivers the most
natural-sounding Diapason tone for this
scale pipework voiced on this pressure.
It must be heard to be appreciated.
In the French tradition, the Resonance
was a type of Solo organ, but Opus 2795
also has a Solo division. It is composed of
several digital voices, provided by Walker
Technical Company. It also has a five-rank
(305 pipes) Mounted Cornet, installed at
the top of the organ, voiced on 10 inches
wind pressure, and the Austin Tuba Magna
voiced on 22 inches wind pressure that
is enclosed in a separate expression box.
Inside this expression box are the speakers
for the digital voices. A few additional
voices inside the Swell and Choir have
their speakers mounted in those chambers
as well. This allows the tone to resonate [this is
NOT why it is called a Resonance Division]
with its associated pipework, and express
naturally, rather than from an artificial
volume control. Again, none of the digital
voices are considered ensemble voices;
they are only superfluous solo stops."
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