Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In organ-building, the handle by which the player controls the position of the slider belonging to a particular stop, or set of pipes.
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Examples
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A stop-knob bearing the inscription, "Noli me tangere"
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller
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By this means an organist is enabled to build up the tone of his organ from the softest to the loudest without having to touch a single stop-knob, coupler or combination piston.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller
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Every key on the keyboard has a corresponding pallet in the wind-chest, and every stop-knob operates a slider under the pipes, so that both a slider must be drawn and a pallet depressed before any sound can be got from the pipes.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller
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Thus for example when the stop _melodia_ is drawn (by pulling out a stop-knob or tilting a tablet), one set of pipes only, sounds when the keyboard is played on: but if the stop _flute_ is drawn with
Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928
hernesheir commented on the word stop-knob
I'd collect antique organ stop-knobs if I could fine them in sufficient variety.
December 8, 2010