Greetings Oh Sage List,
        As I wander around the hallowed halls of pipe organ building
history on my amateur student legs, you would think there was plenty of
well established  information and firmly established  methods to hold my
attention for a normal lifetime. However, as would any normal child, I
find  myself occasionally distracted by the abnormal or the oddity.
Things like double languids, Ludwigtones, Monkey Quints, Compton's Cube,
well, you get the idea.
       Recently I stumbled upon a serious student who was writing a
dissertation about East European organ building, and looking for
information about a multiplex electronic system that would effectively
fill in the missing octave notes in a unit organ by creating resultant
substitutes for them. The example given is :

> If you have a multiplex Principal 8 and Octave 4 and you play C1 and
> C2 you
> hear only C1, C2 and C3. According to normal system, you should but
> hear C1,
> C2, C2 and C3. In the Oliwa System, the missing C2 (a 4') should have be
> simulated through a 2' and a 1'1/3.

    I find this quite interesting since I was under the impression that
resultants were something relegated to the bass registers where they can
be quite effective. I had never heard about a resultant created as high
as 2' before.
    I'm wondering if there is any similar president for this type of
thing in organ building away from Eastern Europe, and if anybody has
experience with it, how well does it work?

    Thanks for your time in advance.
          Mike

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