Queries about St. Pauls organ. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B28610 of text R224638 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B28610 Wing Q164B Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.9[93] ESTC R224638 ocm99885554

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 eng St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England) Cathedrals -- England -- Early works to 1800. Organs -- England -- Early works to 1800. London (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. eebo Queries about St. Pauls organ. . n/a 1670 2 749 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2014-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-11 Sampled and proofread 2014-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
QUERIES about St. Paul's Organ .

I. WHether Sir Christopher Wren wou'd not have been well pleas'd to have receiv'd such a Proposal from the Organ-builder of St. Paul's , as shou'd have erected an Organ , so as to have separated 20 Foot in the middle , as low as the Gallery , and thereby given a full and airy Prospect of the whole length of the Church , and six Fronts with Towers as high as requisite ?

II . Whether difficulty this Organ-builder finds in making Pipes to speak , whose Bodies are but 16 Foot long , does not prove how much harder it wou'd have been for him , to have made Pipes of 22 Foot speak , as those at Exeter ; or 32 Foot , as several Organs beyond Sea ? And whether he has reason to complain of want of height , or room in the Case for higher , and larger Pipes , since those of a common size , have put him to a Non-plus ? And whether he has not the greater Reason , because he gave the Dimensions of the Case himself ?

III . Whether the double Bases of the Diapasons in St. Paul's Organ speak quick , bold , and strong , ( with a firm , plump , and spreading Tone ) or on the contrary , slow , soft , and only buzzing , when touch'd singly ? And whether they may not more properly be call'd Mutes than speaking Pipes ?

IV . Whether the Organ be not too soft for the Quire now 't is inclos'd ? And if so , what will it be when laid open to the Cupulo , and Body of the Church ? And what further Addition of Strength , and Lowdness will it require to display its Harmony quite through the large Concave of the Building , and answer the Service of the Quire , which is the noblest for Eccho and Sound , and consequently of the greatest advantage to an Instrument , of any in Europe ?

V. Whether the Sound-boards , and Foundation of the Instrument , as well as Contrivance , and Disposition of the whole Work , will admit of more Stops to render the Organ in Proportion , five times as Lowd as now it is ?

VI Whether if 12 Stops ( supposing there were so many in the great Organ ) were plaid full in Chorus , 't wou'd not make St. Paul's Organ vibrate and faint ? And if so , how can it be render'd lowder by the Addition of Stops , since the Wind that does not well supply 12 , must of necessity worse supply 13 , and so onward ?

VII . Whether 't is possible to make an Organ lowder , that has all the Strength it can contain already ?

VIII . Whether there been't Organs in the City lowder , sweeter , and of more variety than St. Paul's , ( which cost not one 3 d . of the Price ) And particularly , whether Smith at the Temple , has not out-done Smith at St. Paul's ? And whether St. Andrew's Undershaft has not out-done them both ?

IX . Whether the open Diapason of Metal that speaks on the lower set of Keys at St. Andrew's Undershaft , be not a Stop of extraordinary Use and Variety , and such as neither St. Paul's has , or can have ?

X. Whether Depth in the Case gives nor Liberty for containing the greater Quantity and Variety of Work ? And if so , why shou'd not St. Pauls have as great Variety as other Organs , and the order of the Work be as well contriv'd , and dispos'd for Tuning and other Conveniencies , since its Case is near double the Depth , to any in England ?

XI . Whether the great Organ-builder will condescend to submit his Organ to the same Scrutiny , which all Artists of the same Profession do in all Countries ? And if it be deny'd , whether it will not give the World , and particularly the Dean and Chapter of St. Pauls , reason to fear , that this Noli-me-tangere proceeds from some secret Cause ? And to Question —

XII . Whether the Cupulo , or the Organ at St. Paul's will be first finish'd ?