Allen Organ Company Renaissance 230, Owner'S Manual

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R-230, -250, -270 SECTION I 2
TONAL FAMILIES: continued
Flute Voices
Open:
Harmonic Flute
Spitzflöte
flute mutations
Stopped:
Gedackt
Bourdon
Quintadena
Rohr Bourdon
Voices of lesser harmonic development than Diapason or Principal.
Open flutes somewhat imitative; stopped flutes not. Present at many
pitch levels and in all divisions.
String Voices
Salicional
Viola Pomposa
Voix Céleste
Mildly imitative voices of brighter harmonic development than
Principal. Usually appear at 8’ pitch.
Compound Voices
Mixture
Cornet
Voices produced by more than one pitch sounding simultaneously.
Hybrid Voices
Gemshorn
Erzähler
Voices that combine the tonal characteristic of two families of sound,
e.g., flutes and principals, or strings and principals.
In reed pipes, a metal tongue vibrates against an opening in the side of a metal tube
called a shallot. The characteristic sounds of different reeds are produced through
resonators of varying shape. The family of reeds subdivides as follows:
Reed Voices
Chorus or Ensemble:
Trompette
Posaune
Clairon
Solo:
Hautbois
Clarinet
Krummhorn
Voices of great harmonic development; some imitative, others
not.