AN IMPROVED MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, PARTS OF WHICH ARE APPLICABLE TO ORGANS, HARMONIUMS, AND SIMILAR INSTRUMENTS
Year: 1861

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Edward Gedge at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 14th
March 1861. A communication from abroad by Bertrand Feuga, of
Toulouse, in the Empire of France.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, No. 11,
Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED MUSICAL
INSTRUMENT, PARTS OF WHICH ARE APPLICABLE TO ORGANS, HARMONIUMS, AND SIMILAR
INSTRUMENTS," (a communication to me from abroad by Bertrand Feuga, of
Toulouse, in the Empire of France,) to be as follows:-
The melodiorgue is an instrument with free reed stops of novel combination,
and has three times the power of any other key-board instrument, while its
dimensions render it suitable for the smallest chapel. The melody exists in
the upper sound-board, and the reservoir of air on which it is placed being at
less pressure than the lower one, contributes to the sweetness of the harmony.
The register table, which is at the same time the table of harmony, fits
hermetically to the sound-board, permitting the execution of recitatives by the
forte, a guide being introduced for that purpose. The great power is in the first
sound-board which is on the high-pressure reservoir and produces the loudest
tones of an organ. The skin is applied on the valve bearers in a novel manner,
being first placed thereon and an incision afterwards made. The advantages
of little wear or noise, and more air than is obtained by any of the various

page_text: bellows work hitherto used in musical instruments is obtained by simple force
in this improved instrument by the adoption of a conical principle of con-
struction, although there are but two port vents on the conical cube. The
double force has four port vents which connect the two conical cubes with the
air chamber. The triple force has six port vents, of which four adhere to 5
the conical cubes, and two to the wind pedals. To each of these divers port
vents, which all start from one principle, a seventh port vent is added which
feeds the upper reservoir and completes this wind apparatus.

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Edward Gedge at tho
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 14th
March 1861. A communication from abroad by Bertrand Feuga, of
Toulouse, in the Empire of France.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, No. 11,
Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED MUSICAL
INSTRUMENT, PARTS OF WHICH ARE APPLICABLE TO ORGANS, HARMONIUMS, AND SIMILAR
INSTRUMENTS," (a communication to me from abroad by Bertrand Feuga, of
Toulouse, in the Empire of France,) to be as follows:-
The melodiorgue is an instrument with free reed stops of novel combination,
and has three times the power of any other key-board instrument, while its
dimensions render it suitable for the smallest chapel. The melody exists in
the upper sound-board, and the reservoir of air on which it is placed being at
less pressure than the lower one, contributes to the sweetness of the harmony.
The register table, which is at the same time the table of harmony, fits
hermetically to the sound-board, permitting the execution of recitatives by the
forte, a guide being introduced for that purpose. The great power is in the first
sound-board which is on the high-pressure reservoir and produces the loudest
tones of an organ. The skin is applied on the valve bearers in a novel manner,
being first placed thereon and an incision afterwards made. The advantages
of little wear or noise, and more air than is obtained by any of the various

page_text: bellows work hitherto used in musical instruments is obtained by simple force
in this improved instrument by the adoption of a conical principle of con-
struction, although there are but two port vents on the conical cube. The
double force has four port vents which connect the two conical cubes with the
air chamber. The triple force has six port vents, of which four adhere to
the conical cubes, and two to the wind pedals. To each of these divers port
vents, which all start from one principle, a seventh port vent is added which
feeds the upper reservoir and completes this wind apparatus.