Keyboard Couplers And Sustain (Percussion) Controls - Wurlitzer 4100 series Owner's Manual

KEYBOARD
COUPLERS
AND
SUSTAIN
(PERCUSSION)
CONTROLS
THE
COUPLERS
In
organ
terminology,
to
"couple"
is
to join
and/or
transfer a tonality at a specified pitch
. .
.
This
is
done
within
a
keyboard
or
from
one keyboard
to
another by means
of
Coupler
Controls.
Unlike any
other
organ
in
its
price range, the
Model
4100
Organ
offers
inter-manual
and
intra-manual Couplers
in the 16', 8
and 4
range.
For convenience
of operation,
the
Coupler
tablets
are placed
to
the
left
of the
upper
keyboard.
The
Couplers provide
addi-
tional
combinations
to
the already great
re-
sources of tonalities
and
pitches
on
each key-
board.
by
means
of Couplers
you can
The
four
Coupler
tablets
and
the five
controls
for
the
8'
tonalities
of the upper key-
board are inscribed
in
red.
This
is
a visual
reminder of
the
foct
that the Couplers
control the five
8'
tonalities
of the upper keyboard.
I
play
on
the
upper keyboard,
individually or
combined,
the
16'
and
4'
pitches of the
8'
voices
—
Flute,
Diapason,
String,
Trumpet, Oboe.
y play
on
the
lower keyboard
at
the
8'
pitch
the
8'
voices of the
upper keyboard, alone or
in
combination with voices of the lower key-
board. In
effect, this
adds
five tonalities to
the
extensive resources of the
lower keyboard.
3
play on
the
lower keyboard any
or
all
of the
8'
voices of the
upper keyboard while
playing
on
the
upper keyboard
a
melody using
any
16',
5
1/3'
and/or 4'
voice
without
the
8'
tonality
being included
in
the
combination.
M
use the
8'
Solo Control of the
upper keyboard
in
conjunction with
the
Couplers
to
produce
the increased
intensity
the Solo
Control
offers.
The
coupling system of
your Wurlitzer
Organ
provides exceptional tonality
extension
and has been
designed for the greatest versatility in
playing.
It literally
adds
ten additional individual tonalities
at different pitches to the resources of the
upper
keyboard,
as
well as
five
additional tonalities to
the
lower keyboard, with
two
intensities
of each.
UPPER
TO
UPPER
16'
—
With
this
control
you automatically add, or couple,
to
the
8'
registration
being played
on
the
upper keyboard, the 16',
or octave lower, pitch of the
same
tonality.
UPPER
TO
UPPER
4'
—
With
this
control
you automatically add, or couple, to the
8'
registration
being played on
the
upper
keyboard, the 4',
or octave higher, pitch of the
same
tonality.
UPPER
8'
OFF
—
By
using
this
control
with an 8'
voice
on
the
upper
keyboard,
you automatically
remove
the
sound
of the
8'
pitch
itself.
This
is
useful
when
you
want
only the
16'
and/or
4'
pitch
of
any
of the
8'
voices (Flute,
Diapason,
String,
Trumpet, Oboe).
This
is
accomplished by using
Upper
to
Upper 16' with
Upper
8'
Off
for
76'
and/or
Upper
to
Upper
4'
with
Upper
8'
Off
for
4'.
UPPER
TO LOWER
8'
—
With
this
control
you automatically add, or couple, to the
lower key-
board
at
the
8'
(
unison
)
pitch
all
of the
8'
registrations set
on
the
upper
keyboard. Also,
by using
the
"Upper
8' Off" Control you can play
a solo
on
the
upper keyboard using
the 16', 5
1/3'
and/or
4'
voice with an
accompaniment on
the
lower keyboard (by
means
of the
Upper
to
Lower
8'
coupler)
using
the
tonalities
of
any
of the
upper keyboard 8'
voices.
In addition
to
augmenting
the
organ and
orchestral voices,
the Couplers are
also
used in
connection
with
many
percussion
effects,
described
on
the
following
page.
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