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The word "manual" is used instead of the word "keyboard" when referring to any hand-operated keyboard on a keyboard instrument that has a pedalboard (a keyboard on which notes are played with the feet), such as an organ; or when referring to one of the keyboards on an instrument that has more than one hand-operated keyboard, such as a two- or ...
A book playing a large Gavioli fairground organ. Book music (French: Livre de musique) is a medium for storing the music played on mechanical organs, mainly of European manufacture. Book music is made from thick cardboard, containing perforated holes specifying the musical notes to be played, with the book folded zig-zag style.
The console of the Wanamaker Organ in the Macy's (formerly Wanamaker's) department store in Philadelphia, featuring six manuals and colour-coded stop tabs.. The pipe organ is played from an area called the console or keydesk, which holds the manuals (keyboards), pedals, and stop controls.
The concept was marketed as a "Symphonic Registrator" organ, but few of these instruments were sold. [1] The company's largest organ was a 5-manual, 24-rank, which was installed in the Rochester Theatre, in Rochester, New York in 1927. The theatre was demolished in 1964, [4] and the organ sold. [5]
Manual mixtures with tierces can sound "disembodied" without a 16' stop being drawn with them. The frequency at which the various ranks in a mixture drop back by an interval (or break) as one ascends the compass determines to a great extent how the mixture sounds. If a mixture does not break, it is referred to as a harmonic mixture.
Console of the 4-manual, 16 rank Page Theatre Organ at the Catalina Casino, in Avalon, California. The Grand Page Organ, Paramount Theatre (Anderson, Indiana) The Page Organ Company was an American manufacturer of theater pipe organs, located in Lima, Ohio. [1] The Page Company started very small, with a home-built organ in 1922. However, the ...
On April 26, 1941 Ray Nelson entertained fans that showed up early with a pipe organ behind the ballpark's grandstands. The Chicago Tribune notes that Nelson had to cut the music before the first ...
The Musical Times of 1 March 1897 advertised the first six volumes of a new series of organ music, also called The Village Organist and also published by Novello. The editors were John Stainer and F. Cunnigham Woods, who noted that they "have eneavoured to bring together a collection of pieces ... simple, without being uninteresting and ...