The American annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . Other improvements, introduced by them, arethe sounding and tube boards, which increase. the resonance of the tones of the organ; Woods 668 REFORMED CHURCHES. octave coupler, which nearly doubles the power ofthe instruments; noiseless safety-valves, to regu-late the escape of wind and the pressure uponthe wind-chest, and thus prevent the hissingsound so disagreeable in some reed instruments;and the improved combination register, to facil-itate the drawing and closing the stops. Theseimprovements, and the great car
The American annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . Other improvements, introduced by them, arethe sounding and tube boards, which increase. the resonance of the tones of the organ; Woods 668 REFORMED CHURCHES. octave coupler, which nearly doubles the power ofthe instruments; noiseless safety-valves, to regu-late the escape of wind and the pressure uponthe wind-chest, and thus prevent the hissingsound so disagreeable in some reed instruments;and the improved combination register, to facil-itate the drawing and closing the stops. Theseimprovements, and the great care taken in itsconstruction, have rendered the Cabinet Or-gan the best and most complete reed instru-ment yet produced, though the other instru-ments manufactured by the other large manu-facturers are greatly superior to the best of theEuropean instruments, all of which yet adhereto the old system of forcing the air rapid has been the advance in the improve-ment of the American reed instruments, thatthe poorest instrument of any respectable manu-facturer at the present time is greatly superiorto the best of ten years since. Stops, analogousto those in u
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