#KIMBALL ORGAN SERVICE MANUAL MANUAL#

#KIMBALL ORGAN SERVICE MANUAL MANUAL#

(You could accomplish the same thing without coupling, by registering the same stop at 16’, 8’ and 4’ pitches, provided that they were all available on the manual you are playing, but the organ specification may not offer all three, hence the advantage of having couplers). So in effect, you are playing 3 notes with one finger. If you then press the “Octave” coupler, you will find that you now have added the “C” an octave above Middle “C” (hence the term “Octave”). If you select an 8’ stop, depress the Sub Octave coupler, and play Middle “C” you will find that you now have the Middle “C” and the “C” an octave below (hence the term “Sub Octave”) playing simultaneously. Middle “C” on the piano is the same as 8’ middle “C” on the organ. They would typically be labeled “Sub Octave”, “Unison Off”, and “Octave”.Īs was previously discussed, 8’ stops sound at the same pitch as an acoustic piano. Let’s say, for instance, that you sit down at a console and you see 3 (usually black colored) coupler tabs for the Great manual. As the name implies, this is coupling of sounds within a particular manual. An example of a respecified Kimball is at John Dickinson High School in Delaware.įirst we will examine Intra-Manual Couplers. Many of these Kimball instruments have had their stop availabilities re-specified over the years to have them more in keeping with the standard setup of Wurlitzers and other brands featuring a far more useful 3rd manual. Some 3 manual Kimballs were built with the topmost manual serving as a “Percussion” manual with a minimal number of pipe stops assigned to it, but all of the tuned percussions available. Some two manual instruments name the top manual, “Great”, instead of “Solo” There are several exceptions to the above, however. On a rare 5 manual instrument, they would be named “Accompaniment”, “Great”, “Orchestral”, “Bombarde”, and “Solo”

If the instrument has 4 manuals, they would be named “Accompaniment”, “Great”, “Orchestral”, and “Solo”. “Solo” is almost always the name of the topmost manual on any large TPO. The third manual on a 3 manual instrument is the “Solo” manual. The second manual up from the bottom is the “Great” manual. The lowest manual on a Theatre Pipe Organ is the “Accompaniment” manual.

Kimball organ service manual