Swell Box

_ New soundboard (CC to G), swell-box and new action. ❋ George Worley (N/A)

These stops are all placed in a new swell-box, except those marked*, which are on the heavy wind pressure. ❋ George Laing Miller (N/A)

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. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

The swell-box is made in three thicknesses, each of one inch. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

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. ❋ Karl Wilson Gehrkens (1928)

“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. ❋ Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939 (1908)

"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. ❋ Lawrence Gilman (1908)