Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In organ-building, the box or chamber in which the pipes of the swell-organ are placed, the front being made of movable blinds or slats, which can be opened or shut by means of a pedal.
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Examples
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_ New soundboard (CC to G), swell-box and new action.
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These stops are all placed in a new swell-box, except those marked*, which are on the heavy wind pressure.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller
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Provision was made for an adequate pedal organ, lodged in the triforium gallery, where an admirable site was also secured for the swell-box: the choir organ is _beneath_ the great, and behind it, in a picturesque stone tribune or loft, the organist was seated at the manuals.
Ely Cathedral Anonymous
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The swell-box is made in three thicknesses, each of one inch.
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But on the piano, organ not enclosed in a swell-box, kettle drum, etc., the power of the tone cannot be varied after the tone has once been sounded, and a _crescendo_ effect is therefore possible only in a _passage_, in rendering which each succeeding tone is struck more forcibly than its immediate predecessor.
Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928
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“He was not pleased with the idea, having in mind the expressionless organ of a dozen years ago when only a small portion of most organs was enclosed in a swell-box.
Edward MacDowell Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939 1908
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"He was not pleased with the idea, having in mind the expressionless organ of a dozen years ago when only a small portion of most organs was enclosed in a swell-box.
Edward MacDowell Lawrence Gilman 1908
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