Electrokinetica - Cinema: Organ chamber

The console

Electric organ action | The Compton matrix relay | Console action | The combination action

Contacts, contacts and more contacts

As we have seen, a theatre organ is designed to exploit every tonal resource to the full. And that means lots of contacts! Pictures of the inside of a Compton console will soon be here.

Organ links

The British Institute of Organ Studies
pykett.org.uk - Comprehensive organ technical reference site
Pipe organ resources at MusicLink
The Cinema Organ Society
Theatre organ recordings at The Virtual Radiogram

Further reading

Whitworth, Reginald. The Electric Organ. London: Musical Opinion, 1930.
Bonavia-Hunt, Noel A. The Modern British Organ. London: A. Weekes & Co., 1947.