suitable bass tablet belonging to any manual is thus locked
down, the stops and couplers of the Pedal department will automatically
move so as to provide at all times a bass that is suitable to the
combination of stops and couplers in use upon that particular manual.

On touching the suitable bass tablet belonging to any other manual with
extra pressure, the tablet formerly touched will be released and the
latter will become locked down. The Pedal stops and couplers will now
group themselves so as to provide a suitable bass to the stops in use
on the latter-named manual, and will continue so to do until this
suitable bass tablet is in turn released.

This automatic suitable bass device does not interfere with the normal
use of the stop-keys of the pedal department by hand. Directly any one
of these be touched, the suitable bass mechanism is automatically
thrown out of action.

The combination pedals and pistons are all provided with double touch.
Upon using them in the ordinary way the manual stops alone are
affected. If, however, considerable extra pressure be brought to bear
upon them the appropriate suitable bass tablet is thereby momentarily
depressed and liberated--by this means providing a suitable bass. In
large organs two or three adjustable toe pistons are also provided to
give independent control of the Pedal organ. On touching any of these
toe pistons all suitable bass tablets are released, and any selection
of Pedal stops and couplers that the organist may have arranged on the
toe piston operated is brought into use. The Hope-Jones plan seems to
leave little room for improvement. It has been spoken of as "the
greatest assistance to the organist since the invention of combination
pedals." [1]

Compton, of Nottingham, England[2] (a progressive and artistic
builder), already fits a suitable bass attachment to his organs and it
would seem likely that before long this system must become universally
adopted.

[1] Mark Andrews, Associate of the Royal College of Organists, England,
President of the National Association of Organists and Sub-Warden of
the American Guild of Organists.

[2] Mr. R. P. Elliott, organizer and late Vice-President of the Austin
Co., said on his last return from England that Compton was at that time
doing the most artistic work of any organ-builder in that country. He
is working to a great extent on the lines laid down by Hope-Jones, and
has the benefit of the advice and as