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Organ pipes are so sensitive to temperature that the body heat of the organ tuner can affect the tuning. If one holds a small metal flue pipe briefly in one's hand and then returns it to the chest ( windchest ), its pitch (relative to a tuning reference) can be heard to change as the pipe returns to room temperature.
The pipe organ at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Santa Cruz, CA is based on an A. B. Felgemaker Co. organ (Opus 506, 1889) with additional pipes and Zimbelstern added by Stuart Goodwin & Co. (Opus 10, 1988) after moving it from its previous home in Ohio. [3] The organ is in active use at the 5:00 Saturday and 7:00 and 8:30 Sunday Masses.
In some larger organs, a second Tibia rank may be present, extended to 1 ft (0.30 m) instead of 16 ft (4.9 m), allowing a 1 + 1 ⁄ 3 ft (0.41 m) Nineteenth mutation and a 1 ft (0.30 m) Piccolo to be drawn from this rank. A few of the largest theatre organs, and some church organs, may have a separate 32 ft (9.8 m) Tibia Clausa rank of 12 pipes.
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.
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 ...
The Holtkamp Organ Company of Cleveland, Ohio is America's oldest continuously operating pipe organ workshop. The company was founded in 1855 by Gottlieb Votteler . The work produced by the shop has evolved over the years in terms of architectural style, sound, and mechanism.
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