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Currently, the world's largest mechanical (tracker) action organ was built by Ronald Sharp in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia, and includes over 10,500 pipes. Components of the action. A roller board with rollers and trackers from a 1970 D. A. Flentrop organ.
Jul 27, 2003 · #1. What's a good tracker action? 07-27-2003, 02:49 PM. Right now our company is in the process of rebuilding the tracker action of a large 3-manual organ whose builder made a bunch of fundamental mistakes. I knew this organ's builder (now deceased) as a serious, intelligent craftsman, who wasn't given to cutting corners.
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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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May 15, 2009 · Playing a tracker action organ (without couplers) is similar in feel to playing a harpsichord. While the harpsichord pluck is a plectra plucking the string, in a tracker organ the pluck is the resistance of the wind pressure holding the pallet shut. So is a tracker organ better? A matter of personal preference.
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. The ...
Some noted builders of tracker organs include: Aristide Cavaillé-Coll of Paris, Hook and Hastings, Henry Erben, George Jardine, and Pilcher from America in the 19th Century, and Fisk, Dobson, Redman and others who are still building fine tracker instruments today. .
