Talk:Calliope (music)

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Contents 1 Is it an organ? 2 Request for Pictures 2.1 Banner removed 3 Range? 4 Repertoire?

[edit] Is it an organ?

Is a Calliope a type of organ, or not? If not, why not?

A calliope differs in no substantial way from an organ with one rank comprising only closed metal flue pipes. The fact that steam rather than cold air is the fluid is not a substantial difference. Organ pipes have varying air pressures - this is just higher than any of those. The acoustics of the pipes and the fact that each note has one pipe (rather than changing the pitch by uncovering holes in the sides) are the same. Conventional organs may have wooden pipes, open pipes, several stops, pedals and a swell chamber, but need not have any of these. (Theatre organs may - but need not - also have percussion instruments including drums, cymbals, piano, xylophone, glockenspiel, woodblocks, castanets etc, driven pneumatically from the keyboard.) Yes, it is a (pretty minimal) type of organ. --Hugh7 08:03, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for Pictures

Added picture of the Kitch Greenhouse Steam Calliope in action at The Ohio Historical Society. There is an interesting story on this instrument, which travels around Ohio for special events. This is my first photo, so I hope that I got it right. Lowellt 23:18, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

i added a picture the other day and now it is gone. can anyone tell me why, or what i did wrong? thanks Alandindas 14:42, 14 October 2006 (UTC)alan dindas

Perhaps it was copyright? --Hugh7 08:02, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Banner removed

There are three pictures now, and the 'image request banner' has been in place for two years. I think it can go now...

...gone!

EdJogg 14:57, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Range?

How many whistles did/do they have, and what was/is their range? Were/are they diatonic (~white keys, "natural notes") or chromatic (~white and black keys, sharps and flats)? I see the steamboat one seems to have 16, but can we see them all? The Kitch Greenhouses instrument seems to have about 30. --Hugh7 07:53, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Repertoire?

What sort of music could they play? Anything ambitious? (eg prelude to Act 3 of Lohengrin? waltz from Gounod's Faust?) What sort of music was on the rolls and drums? --Hugh7 07:53, 13 December 2006 (UTC)