Talk:Portative organ

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Brilliant to see the portative organ so well covered here plenty of good info- my minor change concered the notion of them having a reservoir. Ok, sorry and the bit about keeping good tuning (I play a late 1400's reproduction portative which keeps pitch well). Highest regard to previous contributor(s), MUSICALTIM :-)


 * Thanks for that addition. I've moved it toward the top of the article and made a few minor changes. Please check them when you have a chance. And if you have a portative organ, even a reproduction, how about taking a photograph of it and adding it to this article? Tomgally 23:01, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

"consists of one rank of flue pipes" Commonly arranged in either one or two rows, as both illustrations show - a perfectly usual portative set up, of which there are many historical illustrations. A single flue rank in a single row was more a particular feature of the Regal. See eg Oxford Companion to Music/Scholes Organ article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.213.181.213 (talk) 21:22, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Giorgio Questa organ
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 * Musician Giorgio Questa constructed a version of the portative organ with 10 ranks of pipes, 49 keys (C to C), 25 pedals controlling the lowest 25 keys and other moving mechanical parts. The organ was constructed entirely of wood, and could be assembled and disassembled with ease, with additional portability due to its storage in wooden cases. Giorgio Questa Portative Organ.jpg

That's a positive organ rather than a portative organ, right? (A portative organ is one which can be carried around.) And what's so notable about a specific organ that it needs to be mentioned in a general article about the type of instrument, instead of in a future article about the musician himself? (I see that there's an article about the musician on Italian Wikipedia: it:Giorgio Questa.) I am going to remove the section. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 20:37, 9 August 2023 (UTC)


 * I have nominated all images uploaded by the user for deletion (suspected copyright violation). - Mike Rosoft (talk) 19:35, 13 August 2023 (UTC)