Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In organ-building, one of the partial organs, next in importance to the great organ.
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Examples
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Some idea of its magnitude may be got from the fact that the wind-machinery and the swell-organ alone fill up the whole recess occupied by the former organ, which was not a small one.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various
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Then, suddenly, with a swell-organ effect, as though a door had been flung open between him and the speakers, he heard a single voice that babbled and faltered in noisy shrill anger.
Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902
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Those beautiful effects, for which the organ is incomparable, the _crescendo_ and _diminuendo_, -- the gradual rise of the sound from the lowest murmur to the loudest blast, and the dying fall by which it steals gently back into silence, -- the _dissolving views_, so to speak, of harmony, -- are not only provided for in the swell-organ, but may be obtained by special adjustments from the several systems of pipes and from the entire instrument.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various
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