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Laborava: Inside the Pipe Organ
A Spanish-language field guide to building, restoring, tuning, and understanding pipe organs.
Field notes
Laborava organizes its material as a ten-part Spanish-language account of organ construction, beginning with the electric blower and regulating bellows and ending with tuning and seasonal care. The text connects workshop decisions to audible consequences: narrow wind channels can create pressure drops, humidity can open joints in the soundboard, and a poorly controlled tremulant may affect an entire division. It also supplies trade vocabulary rather than assuming readers already know the terminology.
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