Nightingale (organ)

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The nightingale (also known as Rosignol , Rossignol , Vogelgezwitscher , Vogelgeschrey or Vogelsang ) is an effect register of the organ .

construction

The register consists of one or more small organ pipe (s). Principal pipes are mostly used for this . The whistle (s) are either attached directly to the wind tunnel or to a small cockpit on a wind chest and with their mouths, i.e. H. upside down, dipped in a vessel of water. The functional principle is similar to that of a water flute .

If the register is activated, i. H. If air flows into the small wind chest, the air is passed directly into the whistle (s). In addition, in some cases, air is passed through a perforated tube, closed at the other end, which is located at the bottom of the water vessel. Because of the wave movement of the water, the length of the air column swaying in the pipe changes arbitrarily, causing the most varied of tones to sound one after the other, which mimick the chirping of birds.

Occurrence

The nightingale organ register has been handed down since the early 16th century and is very popular in baroque organs across national borders. In the course of the 18th century this subsidiary register went out of fashion and was judged disparagingly in the 19th century. In a contemporary manual it says:

"... is a side move, which introduces the chirping of birds, it is the tastiest and most nonsensical device that has ever been installed in the organs (...) which, (...), creates a chirping or rather gurgling sound that some great ones and small children exceptionally well-pleased. De gustibus non disputandum ! "

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eberlein: Organ register. 2016, p. 721.
  2. ↑ Eberlein: Organ register. 2016, p. 720.
  3. ^ Johann Julius Seidel: The organ and its construction. A systematic manual. Breslau 1843, p. 94 ( digitized version ).