swell box

noun

a chamber containing a set of pipes in a pipe organ or of reeds in a reed organ, and having movable slats or shutters that can be opened or closed to increase or diminish tonal volume.

First recorded in 1795–1805

It is in such cases not his custom to fit any shutters in the side or front of the Swell box.

The organist might leave his Swell-box shut or, by means of a catch on the pedal, hitch it full open.

There were twenty-two stops on the Swell, and the Swell bellows was placed inside the Swell box.

Echo organ, of stops of small scale and very soft tone, enclosed in a "swell-box."

The swell-box is made in three thicknesses, each of one inch.

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