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- noun Plural form of
backfall .
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As all the old mechanism -- the backfalls, roller-boards and trackers -- is now swept away, it is possible by placing the bellows in the cellar to utilize the _inside of the organ_ for a choir-vestry, as was indeed done with the pioneer Hope-Jones organ at St. John's Church, Birkenhead.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller
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