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Tracker action in Jørlunde church.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.
EA and EP organ chests can be reoriented in a new church but trackers are one-piece organs, meaning that everything is mechanically connected and any changes, usually impossible, can be very difficult - there was a 28' wide tracker available here brought down from Boston and it was offered to many churches - the one I was at had a 24' wide loft ...
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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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1 day ago · Tracker touch…. Uplifting tone. In a perfect world we would set all the trackers to be reasonably tense so that they can be played with minimal motion (organ technique preaches efficiency) and so that they return to their resting position quickly allowing repeated notes to be articulated clearly and rapidly.
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 ...
