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Otto's organ building career began officially in 1947 but he built his first organ in 1937 when he was just 18 years old for his home church of Immanual Baptist Church in Kyle, Texas. In 1954 he moved to Austin from Kyle to expand his company. His largest organ was built for Margarete B. Parker Chapel at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas ...
In music, the organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means (generally woodwind or electric) for producing tones. The organs have usually two or three, up to five, manuals for playing with the hands and a pedalboard for playing with the feet. With the use of registers, several groups of pipes can be connected to ...
Hope-Jones 16 ft open wood pipes prior to removal from All Saints' Church, Upper Norwood. Robert Hope-Jones (9 February 1859 – 13 September 1914) was an English musician who is considered to be the inventor of the theatre organ in the early 20th century.
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 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.
Invented in 1952 by Virginia Apgar. Disposable diapers The first disposable diaper was invented in 1946 by Marion Donovan, a professional-turned-housewife who wanted to ensure her children's cloth diapers remained dry while they slept. [12] Donovan patented her design (called 'Boaters') in 1951.
The Organ (band), a Canadian rock band 2001–2006 Organ (album), a 2021 album by Dimension "Organs", a 2003 song by Moe from Wormwood. "Organs", a 2006 song by The Black Maria on the MVP Baseball (video game series) soundtrack.
Musicians with cornua and a water organ, detail from the Zliten mosaic, 2nd century CE. The water organ or hydraulic organ (Greek: ὕδραυλις) (early types are sometimes called hydraulos, hydraulus or hydraula) is a type of pipe organ blown by air, where the power source pushing the air is derived by water from a natural source (e.g. by a waterfall) or by a manual pump.