This study concerns the restoration of an English chamber organ built in 1837 by William Hill and Frederick Davison. The organ is now owned by the School of Music at Florida State University. The first chapter documents the history of this organ from the time of its original purchase by Christ Church in Savannah, Georgia, through its moving to several Savannah churches, until its donation to the Florida State University and subsequent restoration from 1977 to 1984. The remainder of the study describes the components of the organ, their condition prior to restoration, and the restoration procedures employed. These five chapters are concerned with the wind supply, the windchest, the action, the pipework, and the casework respectively. Figures illustrate the various components, and an appendix lists the scaling dimensions of the pipework. This organ is the only extant Hill and Davision organ and the only organ by those builders to have been exported to the United States. It is distinctive in that both its manual keyboard of 59 notes and its pedal keyboard of 18 notes (connected by pulldowns) slide into the mahogany case like drawers. A combination action acts directly upon the sliders and drawknobs, offering four permanently preset registrations. Among its six stops is a Claribella, which is the earliest known occurrence of that stop. While heavily damaged, the organ was found in a largely intact and unaltered condition, and thus its restoration is considered to be historically accurate. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-01, Section: A, page: 0016. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1984.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75490 |
| Contributors | SENNHOLTZ, STEVEN E., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 92 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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