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Organ by Frobenius (2009) 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.
Tracker Pipe Organ - expensive, possible life span without major work required - at least 100+ years or more. Trackers are the only organs you hear about that can last for centuries with minimal maintenance.
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It is in six divisions, five manuals plus pedals, and is the largest tracker action organ ever built, with 131 speaking stops served by 200 ranks of pipes consisting of 10,244 pipes. It is a neo-baroque organ in style.
Tracker organs date back many hundred years, although there are still modern tracker action instruments being constructed today. In a tracker organ, the organist presses keys and pulls stops which control the organ's pipes and couplers through a complex matrix of levers and valves. In a tracker organ, the valve, which admits air to the pipe in ...
Traditional organs have what is called a "tracker action". The trackers are thin wooden rods and wires which move backwards and forwards, opening and shutting all the valves. They are worked by levers under the keyboard. A tracker action organ has to have the console right near the organ, usually under the big front pipes.
The second tracker then moves the second square, and it then moves the third tracker in the line, so that at point B the pallet can be opened. The photograph to the right shows a set of squares for a manual division in an instrument with mechanical action. 67 The squares are made of aluminum, and the trackers of a synthetic material.
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.
