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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. In electric-action organs, the console is often movable.
This arrangement encourages the organist to play the melody line on the upper manual while playing the harmony line, chords or bassline on the lower manual. On pipe organs each manual plays a specific subset of the organ's stops, and electric organs (e.g., Hammond organ) can emulate this style of play.
The console or keydesk (where the organist actually plays) cannot be moved. On some instruments, as more stops are used, the organist must apply more pressure/force to a key in order for it to play, resulting in heavy playing action when playing full organ. This can be particularly burdensome when two or more manuals are coupled.
Console of the 3/13 Barton Theatre Pipe Organ at Ann Arbor's Michigan Theatre. 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 ...
The organ is the world's largest pipe organ located in a sacred building. The console has 874 switches for activating the stops, and the action is electro-pneumatic. The instrument is estimated to weigh over 124 tons, and is organized in 23 divisions. [40] It is continually being enlarged. This organ is played for more than 300 services each year.
Console organs, large and expensive electronic organ models, resemble pipe organ consoles. These instruments have a more traditional configuration, including full-range manuals, a wider variety of stops, and a two-octave (or occasionally even a full 32-note) pedalboard easily playable by both feet in standard toe-and-heel fashion.
When they finally play, the artisans who restored the organ will have etched their own unique mark onto a piece of French history. “Every time there has been a restoration, the organ builders ...
These pipe organs use a piano roll player or other mechanical means instead of a keyboard to play a prepared song: Orchestrion; Fairground organ (or band organ in the USA) Dutch street organ; Dance organ; The wind can also be created by using pressurized steam instead of air. The steam organ, or calliope, was invented in the United States in ...