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Tracker action is a term used in reference to pipe organs and steam calliopes to indicate a mechanical linkage between keys or pedals pressed by the organist and the valve that allows air to flow into pipe (s) of the corresponding note.
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Charles Brenton Fisk (February 7, 1925 – December 16, 1983) was an American pipe organ builder. He was one of the first to use mechanical tracker actions instead of electro-pneumatic actions in modern organ construction.
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- February 7, 1925, Washington, D.C.
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- December 16, 1983 (aged 58), Boston, Massachusetts
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Tracker action, in music, on the organ, mechanical system that transmits the organist’s action in depressing a key to the pallet valve that admits air into the pipes that the key controls. It consists of cranks, levers, and trackers (thin strips of wood connecting, under tension, parts of the organ.
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For his final instruction and training in organ building Rudolf von Beckerath moved to France on the recommendation of Hans Henny Jahnn and in January 1929 entered the workshop of the organ builder Victor Gonzalez in Chatillon sous Bagneux, near Paris, where they were still making tracker organs.
In full EDWARD GEORGE POWER BIGGS, English-born American organist who brought to many distinctive, incisive colors of historic organs of many countries, as well as a wealth of classical organ literature from all periods.
