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III. EXPRESSION & CRESCENDO SHOES
The organ’s control pedals (called “shoes”) control expression and crescendo.
The left-most shoe expresses the Great and Pedal Divisions.
The next/middle shoe expresses the Swell Division.
The right-most shoe is the Crescendo shoe. It is a master Crescendo for all divisions. It
gradually adds stops as it is opened/depressed. Sequential green, yellow and red lights on the
organ’s bar graph indicator display relative pedal position. Indiscriminate use of the
Crescendo, in lieu of careful registration, should be avoided.
The Crescendo B thumb piston is associated with the Crescendo shoe. Crescendo B accesses a
second set of Crescendo registrations that can be different from the standard Crescendo
registrations. See the GeniSys
™
Controller Guide later in this manual for more information
relating to changing the registration settings of this secondary Crescendo.
IV. TUTTI I and TUTTI II
The Tutti I and II pistons are sets for full organ registrations. Tutti II has a larger, louder
registration, than Tutti I. The Tuttis are turned on and off by pressing manual thumb pistons
TUTTI I or TUTTI II. The pistons are “toggled” meaning that pressing them a second time
reverses the ON or OFF setting of the corresponding Tutti. Only one Tutti can be turned ON at a
time. Pressing the other Tutti piston that is not turned ON will turn OFF the Tutti that was ON
and turn ON the Tutti that was OFF. The
Cancel
piston button will turn OFF both the Tuttis.
Red signal lights illuminate when Tutti I or II is in operation. These lights are labeled and
located on the Bar Graph Indicator. A second set of Tuttis can be programmed by the organist.
Like the Crescendo, indiscriminate use of Tuttis should be avoided. See the GeniSys
™
Controller Guide later in this manual for more information relating to changing secondary Tuttis
settings.
V. SETTING CAPTURE REGISTRATIONS
Your Allen organ’s capture system lets you set stop registration combinations in each of its
available capture memories. The Q286 and HII-86 has a set of ten (10) General pistons located
under the left side of the Swell and Great manuals and six (6) Divisional pistons for each manual
division which are centrally located under the Swell, Great and Positiv manuals. There is also a
set of six (6) toe studs, located to the right of the organ’s Crescendo shoe for the Pedal division.
As a convenience to the organist, a set of ten (10) General division toe studs are located to the
left of the organ’s Great-Pedal Expression shoe. The General toe studs, when pressed, will
activate the same stop registration programmed on the same number General piston.
