Couplers????

[organpower]

What would your coupler set up be on a large 4 manual...such as a skinner or early casavant?

[FrenchHorn8]

Re: Couplers????



SW-PD

GT-PD

CH-PD

SOLO-PD

SW-PD 4

CH-PD 4

SOLO-PD 4

SW-GT

CH-GT

SOLO-GT

SW-CH

SOLO-CH

SOLO-SW

SW-SOLO

GT-SOLO

SW 16

SW 4

SW-GT 16

SW-GT 4

SW-CH 16

SW-CH 4

CH 16

CH 4

CH-GT 16

CH-GT 4

SOLO 16

SOLO 4

SOLO-GT 16

SOLO-GT 4

[organpower]

Re: Couplers????

•8 Great To Pedal
• 4 Great To Pedal
• 8 Swell To Pedal
• 4 Swell To Pedal
• 8 Choir To Pedal

•4 Choir To Pedal

•8 Solo To Pedal

•4 Solo To Pedal

 

•8 Great To Solo

•8 Great To Swell

•8 Great To Choir

 

•16 Swell To Great
• 8 Swell To Great
• 4 Swell To Great
• 16 Swell To Choir
• 8 Swell To Choir
• 4 Swell To Choir

•16 Swell To Solo
• 8 Swell To Solo
• 4 Swell To Solo

 

•16 Choir To Great

•8 Choir To Great

•4 Choir To Great

•16 Choir To Swell

•8 Choir To Swell

•4 Choir To Swell

•16 Choir To Solo

•8 Choir To Solo

•4 Choir To Solo

 

•8 Solo To Great

•8 Solo To Swell

•8 Solo To Choir

[soubasse32]

Re: Couplers????

FrenchHorn8's list is exactly what you would find on a large Skinner - the unison couplers are grouped togetheron a Skinner.

[Clarion]

Re: Couplers????

If we are talking about a LARGE organ, then where is the need for such an awesome array of couplers, more commonly associated with best utilizing meager resources of tiny unitized organs??

[organpower]

Re: Couplers????

Cause I dont really feel like reaching up on the bombarde, solo, or swell manuals all of the time.

[FrenchHorn8]

Re: Couplers????



[quote user="Clarion"]If we are talking about a LARGE organ, then where is the need for such an awesome array of couplers, more commonly associated with best utilizing meager resources of tiny unitized organs??  [/quote]

 Why not make the most of what you have?  Adding a few extra couplers is much cheaper than a few extra ranks. 

[Clarion]

Re: Couplers????



[quote user="organpower"]Cause I dont really feel like reaching up on the bombarde, solo, or swell manuals all of the time.[/quote]

That's just the onset of old age. [:S] But it doesn't address the need for sub/superoctave intramanual couplers. Sort of reminds me of the Wayne Hare residence organ built by Phoenix, where the lower manual has no speaking voices of it's own. It's just used for coupling the other two manuals:

http://phoenixorgans.com/installatio...nstallation=63

'Course, with Phoenix, if you so wish, you can re-assign the Great, to the lowest manual for each specification.Greatergonomic idea for old folk.[:$]

[soubasse32]

Re: Couplers????



[quote user="Clarion"]If we are talking about a LARGE organ, then where is the need for such an awesome array of couplers, more commonly associated with best utilizing meager resources of tiny unitized organs??[/quote]

I think you have it backwards. A heavily 'unitized' organ needs very few couplers, as everything already plays everywhere and at every pitch.

[Clarion]

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[quote user="soubasse32"]


I think you have it backwards. A heavily 'unitized' organ needs very few couplers, as everything already plays everywhere and at every pitch.

[/quote]

Valid point; nothwithstanding that regardless of the way a "stop"might belablelled, it still may be justa coupler ?? [:S].

[soubasse32]

Re: Couplers????

Sort of...

A coupler is a coupler; a stop is a stop.

The benefit of a coupler is that it couples the entire division with a single movement.

In a heavily unified organ the coupler may have little effect (depending on the size of the instrument and the registration).

[Clarion]

Re: Couplers????

Okay . . . I know when I'm beat. You win!

[organist777]

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[quote user="Clarion"]

.....Sort of reminds me of the Wayne Hare residence organ built by Phoenix, where the lower manual has no speaking voices of it's own. It's just used for coupling the other two manuals:

http://phoenixorgans.com/installatio...nstallation=63

'Course, with Phoenix, if you so wish, you can re-assign the Great, to the lowest manual for each specification.Greatergonomic idea for old folk.[:$]

[/quote]

==

This is a tangent to this thread, but here is a picture of the custom casework we designed and built for the speakers of the Phoenix PDF342.

http://qualityorgans.com/hare_organ.htm

Dave.

[organpower]

Re: Couplers????

old???? i was born in 1972...