GULBRANSEN E - Timbre and Balancer Controls; Timbre Controls; Balancer Controls

Non-Speaking
Stops
The
Timbre
Controls
Two tablets,
deiisnated asTinbrc Mellou andTinbre
B.,?ilt,
contrcl the voice
of the organ and ils distinc-
tive character
of tone. With
only tI& Tinbre Mellou
being us€d
with the reSist.ation,
the los,€r tones of
the
orsan are hishlisht€d.
UsinS
only the ti,n&re
.B.ignt will
accentuaie
th€ hishe. tone!
of the orsan.
Obviously,
by usins
both of theae
tablets at
lne same
time
you
nill incre3r€
tlle totrl volume
of
t}le
o!8an.
There
are no
s€t rules r€gardins
the us€
of rhe
Timbre
Controls;it
is
a
matte.
of
personal
tas!€,
r@m
lcoultics,
and
the like. Frequently,
the
percuEsion
€ffects are enhanc€d
by
lds]di|s
tte Timbre
Bright.
h lhe $ction
dprlin8
with rpgiltration
there
are
example!
ol how
to utilize
the Timbre
Cont_rol!
to
th€ir
b€st advantage.
The Balancer
Controls
The SweLl
fl
tsblet located with the Swell
Manual
stop€ and the Grcot nf
nd
Creat
ff
t^bleta locltxd
with the Gr€at Mmual
stop€
sovem
the
comparativ€
volun€
of the two keyboards. When both
ll
tablets
a.€ depre€sed the manuals
play
at full voluDe.
With the aid ol the Bak'Ecer
Control tablets
it ig
easy
to
properly
balance the volume of one
manual
8el€ct€d for
the
Delody
asaiNt the
volume
of the
manual
lelected !o
play
th6 accompaniment. This
enormously
incleras€s the llexibility
and
versatility
of
the orsan in that
th€ stops may be select€d on the
basis of
their tonal color rathd than
on
the
basis of
Fo. example,
should
you
de€ire only tr{o soft stops
on the Ss/ell Manual
for the melody and wish to have
tbr€e or four stops in use for
the
acc.mpaniment,
melely depr*s the
SwelL
ll
tablet and refrain lrom
u3ins
the other Balancer Controls. This
armngement
will allow
the Swell Manual to dominate.