Robert Lind <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> To bring this on topic, I ask if an organbuilder has ever built
> a ukulele stop or a guitar stop?

Not that I know of, but quoting from the Encyclopedia of Organ Stops:

In 1733 Thomas Schwarbrook placed three string stops in the his organ
for the Church of St. Michael, Coventry, England. These stops, Harp,
Lute and Dulcimer, used actual strings. Sumner conjectures that they
were actuated by a harpsichord mechanism. The difficulty of keeping
them in tune led to their removal in 1763. Audsley reports that "some
attempts have been made to furnish the modern Organ with a string
Harp, sounded by plectra".

-- Ed

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