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Flute Voices
Open:
Harmonic Flute
Melodia
flute mutation stops
Stopped:
Gedackt
Bourdon
Quintadena
Rohrflöte
Voices of lesser harmonic development than Principal. Open
flutes somewhat imitative; stopped flutes not. Present at all
pitch levels and in all divisions.
String Voices
Salicional
Viola
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 rank sounding
simultaneously.
Hybrid Voices
Gemshorn
Erzähler
Spitzflöte
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 different shapes. The family of reeds subdivides as follows:
Reed Voices
Chorus or Ensemble:
Trumpet
Posaune
Clairon
Solo:
Hautbois
Clarinet
Krummhorn
Voices of great harmonic development; some imitative, others
not.
The Allen Digital Computer Organ provides authentic examples of various types of
voices as listed above. Some of these are protected by copyrights owned by the Allen
Organ Company. The voices are stored in memory devices, each having affixed to it a
copyright notice; e.g., © 1992 AOCO, © 1993 AOCO, etc., pursuant to Title 17 of the
United States Code, Section 101 et seq.
