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1. What is the name of the primary unison (i.e., 8') rank of principal tone color on English organs?

2. What importantmechanism was instroduced to English organ building in the first quarter of the eighteenth century?

1. A Stop mechanism.
2. Electric action.
3. Crescendo Pedal.
4. A Swell Box and Swell Pedal
5. I have no idea.

3. The English equivalent of the German "Gedeckt" was the Stopped (or "Stopt")

4. In the second half of the eighteenth century there was an important builder in England who came from Germany. His name was

1. Thomas Dallam.
2. "Father" Smith.
3. Renatus Harris.
4. John Snetzler.
5. I have no idea.

5. What new stop, introduced during the eighteenth century, became a standard of English stoplists thereafter?

1. Viola da Gamba
2. Salicional
3. Erzähler
4. Dulciana
5. I have no idea.

6. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the second most important manual division of an English organ was the

7. At the end of the eighteenth century, the second most important manual division of an English organ was the