Dolce Cornet English?

Audsley lists this top with the following description:

This stop, as the name implies, is compound, harmonic-corroborating, and sweet-voiced. It is properly formed of several ranks of very small-scaled open metal pipes, yielding a soft, singing quality of tone. When extreme softness is required, the ranks should be octave- and fifth-sounding only: but when a more assertive tone is desired, a third-sounding rank should appear in every break, as in the following example of five ranks:

Dolce Cornet - V. Ranks.

c3-c4	1	8	10	12	15
f#2-b3	1	8		12	15	17
f#1-f2		8		12	15	17	19
CC-f1				12	15	17	19	22

 
It will be observed that the introduction of the Seventeenth makes the stop a Sesquialtera in all save the top octave. Artistically voiced and scientifically graduated in tone this Cornet would be extremely valuable in refined registration. The following is a satisfactory composition for a Cornet of four ranks, octave- and fifth-sounding:

Dolce Cornet - IV. Ranks.

g#3-c4	1	8	12	15
c1-g3		8	12	15	19
C-B			12	15	19	22
CC-BB				15	19	22	26

 

Irwin also lists this stop, with this description:

A soft compound manual stop made from several ranks of specially designed Dolce pipes, the fifth-sounding being softer than the octave-sounding. This is a useful accompaniment and timbre-creating stop. It may also be designed as a solo stop. Middle C speaks these notes:

Example #1	III	4' + 2-2/3' + 2'
Example #2	III	2-2/3' + 2' + 1-3/5'
Example #3	IV	8' + 4' + 2-2/3' + 2'
Example #4	IV	4' + 2' + 1-1/3' + 1'

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