CE Truro Cathedral Wed, 8th March 2017

[Dafydd y G.W.]

A few English cathedral organs employed the diaphone method for the bottom octave of the 32' pedal reed. It could be labelled FOGHORN because I think Robeert Hope-Jones nicked the idea from fog-horns in lighthouses which used the same principle.

I think it was the other way round. Having proved of limited value musically the diaphone found a use as a foghorn and thus benefited mankind in another way, albeit not the way R.H.J. had intended.

[ardcarp]

Thanks for the correction Dafydd! I find that even more droll.

(More than you wanted to know about Diaphones here: http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/cl...e/diaphone.htm

and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-74YtxSHCjU )