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Jan 18, 2010 · Once you are familiar with your organ's stop action, it's time to pull out the stop list you compiled in Before We Begin: Acquiring the Essentials. You'll notice that in addition to the names of the stops, two different kinds of numbers are also present.
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TIL the phrase 'pulling out all the stops', meaning to use all the resources or force at one's disposal, comes from organ-playing, where it means to literally pull out every knob to play all the pipes at once, thereby creating the fullest possible sound.
Nov 4, 2021 · Lionel of Maroubra asks, 'when you pull out all stops on an organ what does it actually mean?'Presenter John Hannah has the answer.
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Understanding Organ Stops by Dr Steven Nisbet. This video provides a description of the families of organ sounds (principals, flutes, strings, reeds) and an explanation of organ stop...
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"Stops" are levers on the organ console that control ranks of pipes. Think of them as 'instruments' on a synthesizer, except that you can turn on multiple at the same time. To pull out all the stops is to engage every rank of pipes at once.
Some organs have semi-programmable buttons where you can engage a group of stops mid-song. This is how you can get such complicated sounds from a single performer. This video gives a nice tour of a large organ.
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To 'pull out all the stops' is to make every possible effort to achieve an end. The phrase comes from the act of pulling out all stop knobs from a pipe organ for a powerful blast of sound.