Organ-stops and their artistic registration : names, forms, construction, tonalities, and offices in scientific combination . No. 1 is the Sordunregal,having a capped resonator pierced with four holes for the emissionof sound. As the name implies, its tone was very subdued. No. 2 224 ORGAN-STOPS is the Knopfregal, deriving its name from its pear-shaped head,cut after the fashion of a sleigh-bell. No. 3 is the Apfelregal,deriving its name from the form of its head, which is spherical andpierced with numerous small holes for the emission of sound. No. 4is the Krummhornregal, the tone of which is
Organ-stops and their artistic registration : names, forms, construction, tonalities, and offices in scientific combination . No. 1 is the Sordunregal,having a capped resonator pierced with four holes for the emissionof sound. As the name implies, its tone was very subdued. No. 2 224 ORGAN-STOPS is the Knopfregal, deriving its name from its pear-shaped head,cut after the fashion of a sleigh-bell. No. 3 is the Apfelregal,deriving its name from the form of its head, which is spherical andpierced with numerous small holes for the emission of sound. No. 4is the Krummhornregal, the tone of which is said to have re-sembled that of the old Krummhorn (see Cromorne). No. 5 isthe Schalmei, a stop of the Regal family, the tone of which imi-tated that of the old instrument called Schalmei or Shawm. Otherforms have been given to the pipes of the Schalmei (see Chalu-meau). No. 6 is the Barpfeife, also a stop of the Regal family,which yielded a low growling tone (See Barpfeife). No. 7 is theMessingregal, the tone of which had a brazen clang, probably re-sembling that of a Trumpet. No. 8 is the Ranket, the resonator ?fn. & Fig. 30 of which is cylindrical, furnished with a tuning stopper, and pierced,in the neighborhood of the reed, with sound-holes (see Ranket).Fig. 9 is a Regal which received the name Jeu Erard, after itsinventor (see Jeu Erard). Other Regals have been introduced inold Organs, of which the followingare the names and probabletonalities: Cymbelregal, the tone of which was singularly brightand ringing. Gedampftregal, the tone of which was subdued ormuffled. Geigenregal, the tone of which somewhat resembledthat of the Geige or Violin. Harfenregal, the tones of which borethe character of the sounds of roughly-plucked harp strings. Jung-fernregal, the tones of which were of so refined a character as toresemble, to some degree, the youthful female voice—La Voix ouRegale virginale. Kalberregal, the voice of which was of a softand lowing character, like that of a calf (K
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