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  2. Theatre organ - Wikipedia

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    A theatre organ (also known as a theater organ, or, especially in the United Kingdom, a cinema organ) is a type of pipe organ developed to accompany silent films from the 1900s to the 1920s. Console of the Rhinestone Barton theatre organ, installed in Theatre Cedar Rapids

  3. Organ pipe - Wikipedia

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    The diaphone is a unique organ pipe. Uncommon in church and concert pipe organs, they are quite common in Theatre Organs. Invented by Robert Hope-Jones around 1900, it has characteristics of both flue pipes and reed pipes. The pipe speaks through a resonator, much like a reed pipe, but a spring-loaded pallet instigates the vibration instead of ...

  4. Pipe organ - Wikipedia

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    The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called wind) through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard.Because each pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre, volume, and construction throughout the keyboard compass.

  5. Wikipedia talk : WikiProject Pipe organ/Windchest designs

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    A windchest is a component of a pipe organ on which the pipes sit. As the organist plays the instrument, the keys, stops, and windchest work together as a mechanism (called an 'action') to direct pressurized air (called 'wind') into the pipes, thus creating sound.

  6. Reviving Hollywood glamor of the silent movie era, experts ...

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    A massive pipe organ that underscored the drama and comedy of silent movies with live music in Detroit's ornate Hollywood Theatre nearly a century ago was dismantled into thousands of pieces and ...

  7. Tibia (organ pipe) - Wikipedia

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    A tibia is a sort of organ pipe that is most characteristic of a theatre organ.. Tibia pipes are generally made of wood, stopped, from 16' (Occasionally 32') with the top octave pipes (above 1/2', or 6" made of metal, stopped, and pipes from 1/4', 3" made of metal and open.

  8. Tibia Clausa - Wikipedia

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    It is a large-scale, stopped wood flute pipe, usually with a leathered lip. The rank was invented by Robert Hope-Jones. Tibia Clausas provides the basic foundation tone of the organ with few overtones or harmonics. The Tibia Clausa is arguably the most important rank of pipes in a theatre pipe organ, [1] with some

  9. 'Phantom of the Opera' to haunt Orpheum: Live Wurlitzer organ ...

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    The Orpheum Theatre's Wurlitzer organ will provide music for a screening of Lon Chaney movie classic "The Phantom of the Opera." ... a three-keyboard rack that uses pipe organ samples to create ...