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THE MIDITZER The Console Tech Session RECORDINGS ELSEWHERE
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Possibly the most important tabs on
a theatre organ are the five white
tabs at the lower right labeled "TREM" for tremulant. These
impart a warbling quality to the affected pipe ranks. American
theatre organists play with all the trems on most of the time while
British organists use the trems a bit less. Some ranks such as
the Tibia and Vox Humana are almost never heard without
tremulant.
The trems labeled Vox, Tuba, and Tibia affect just those ranks.
(The Tibia is not on a separate trem on a real 216. This is a
modernization of the 216.)  The Main and Solo trems affect the remaining ranks according to which pipe chamber (room) the pipes are in. The dots above each stop indicate where that rank is located. For example, the Tuba is in the Solo chamber and the Diapason is in the Main Chamber.  The black tabs are couplers. The couplers cause the playing of one key on the keyboard to have the effect of playing an additional key. The Solo has three intra-manual couplers. If the SUB is on the effect is as if you were also playing the key an octave below the key you are playing. If the OCT is on the effect is as if you were also playing the key an octave above the key you are playing. If the Unison Off coupler is on the effect is as if you were not playing the key you are playing.  The Accompaniment has one intra-manual coupler, the OCT coupler which works like the Solo's OCT coupler. The Accompaniment also has one inter-manual coupler, SOLO TO ACC. If the SOLO TO ACC is on the effect is as if you were playing the key you are playing on the Accompaniment manual on the Solo manual as well. The Style 216 was the only 2 manual Wurlitzer that included couplers. The use of couplers can make a registration sound much fuller. I still don't have MIDI pedals, so I frequently will use the SUB coupler to provide a bottom end without the use of pedals. Without the Tibia modernization, one can obtain the "hole in the middle" registration used for open harmony by turning on the 8' Tibia and the Sub, Unison Off, and Octave couplers. This is effectively a 16' plus 4' Tibia registration. My recording of the Maori Farewell Song demonstrates this sound.  Last
update 10/24/2004
© 2004 Jim Henry All Rights Reserved
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