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Your Questions... Answered
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WHAT ARE "MELODY" STOPS?
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There are two types of Melody stops, departmental and single-stop (sometimes called Melody Touch). Both are couplers and both sound only the top note of a chord when it is played – the intention being that the top note is the melody and the remaining notes, sounded by other stops, are the accompaniment.
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Departmental Melody Couplers must be used in combination with stops from another department, as all of the voices on the Melody department are affected by the coupler, so the second department's stops are necessary to sound the chord's accompaniment notes.
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Melody Couplers were championed largely by Seibert Losh, as were seven-octave manuals. He put these ideas across to Emerson Richards, who seemed to take them on-board. Although, in the short term, the Losh/Richards association was productive, the fact is that seven-octave keyboards and melody couplers didn't find favor in the long term, nor on a large scale.
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