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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 ...
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.
"You get the first sound of the organ, the smell of the popcorn and you know for the next three hours that a bad day at the ballpark is still better than a good day at work," said Hartig. Show ...
Nine coding languages were invented by women: ARC assembly language by Kathleen Booth in 1950, Address by Kateryna Yushchenko in 1955, COBOL by Grace Hopper along with other members of the Conference on Data System Languages in 1959, FORMAC by Jean Sammet in 1962, Logo by Cynthia Solomon in 1967 with members of her team, CLU by Barbara Liskov ...
Edwin Scott Votey (June 8, 1856 – January 21, 1931) was an American businessman, inventor, industrial designer, and manufacturer of pianos and organs. He worked in the organ field all his adult life and had over twenty patents. He invented or co-invented several inventions for World War I.
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.
Jones was born in Hooton, Cheshire, one of nine children of William and Agnes Hope-Jones. [2] His younger brother was the horologist Frank Hope-Jones.He started learning the organ at an early age, and by the age of nine, he was playing for occasional services at St Mary's Church, Eastham.