wind-chest

The _wind-chest_ is an oblong box supplied with air under pressure from the bellows and containing the valves (called _pallets_) controlling the access of the wind to the pipes.

The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller

In 1890 the church was enlarged and Jardine removed the organ to a chamber some thirty feet above the floor and fitted his electric action to the Roosevelt wind-chest.

The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller

Hope-Jones appears to have led in adding extra pipes to the wind-chest, which were acted upon by the top octave of the octave couplers, thus giving the organist a complete scale to the full extent of the keyboards.

The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller

Barker, [1] to enlist the force of the organ wind itself to overcome the resistance of the pallets in the wind-chest.

The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller

The original reason for dividing a church organ in this manner seems to have been the impossibility of supplying a large number of stops with wind from a single wind-chest.

The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller

The bellows, being expanded by the wind, pulls down the pallet in the wind-chest; the bellows does all the hard work.

The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller

The function of these pins and staples is to raise balanced keys connected by simple mechanism with the valves of the pipes, which are thus mechanically opened, admitting the stream of air from the wind-chest.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

The wind is thereby forced into a reservoir, whence it passes into the wind-chest, on the sides of which are grouped the pipes.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

The wind-chest is provided with a special arrangement for this experiment.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 Various

J | 1 | in the wind-chest A, shuts off the air from the bellows, which immediately closes, drawing down the pallet B, which admits air (or wind) to the pipes.

The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller