Chapter I: Preface

In publishing this work, it is not my wish or intention to attempt to teach the Player how to use, the Maker how to build, or the Architect how to encase, the second instrument mentioned in the Bible, but to put before the descendants of Jubal that which may incite them to continue to improve the noble instrument, which the combined efforts of taste, science, and skill, have brought to its present degree of excellence.

JOHN NORBURY.

32, GORDON SQUARE, LONDON,
_April, 1877_.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

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THE BOX OF WHISTLES 1

Introductory.

CHAPTER II.

THE ORGAN CASE 2

Division into Four Classes.--Subdivisions of ditto.

CHAPTER III.

WHAT A GOOD CASE SHOULD BE 4

Style not necessarily Gothic.--Renaissance Style.--Tin
Pipes now seldom used.--An Organ Case need not correspond
with the Style of Architecture of the Building.--English
Cases during the last Hundred Years.--An Organ Case
should be good.--Unequal Number of Towers.--Ponts.--Oak
and other Woods.--Culs-de-Lampe.--Ornaments.--Arrangement
of Pipes.--Arrangement of Towers.

CHAPTER IV.

THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE PIPES 7

Number of Pipes.--Not all of the Same Height.--Two Tiers
of Pipes.--Oval and Circular Openings.--Pipes arranged in
Perspective.--Carved Panels.--Inverted Pipes.--Double
Pipes.--Projecting Mouths.--Fancy Mouldings on Pipes.--
Pipes, gilt--diapered--painted--tin--bronzed.--Tubes of
Reed Stops projecting horizontally.--Tuba at York.

CHAPTER V.

THE CHOIR ORGAN AS A SEPARATE CASE 8

As a Screen to the Player.--Choir Front in the Lower Part
of Case.