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  2. Pipe organ tuning - Wikipedia

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    This article describes the process and techniques involved in the tuning of a pipe organ. Electronic organs typically do not require tuning. A pipe organ produces sound via hundreds or thousands of organ pipes, each of which produces a single pitch and timbre. The goal of tuning a pipe organ is to adjust the pitch of each pipe so that they all ...

  3. Organ pipe - Wikipedia

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    An organ pipe is a sound-producing element of the pipe organ that resonates at a specific pitch when pressurized air (commonly referred to as wind) is driven through it. Each pipe is tuned to a note of the musical scale. A set of organ pipes of similar timbre comprising the complete scale is known as a rank; one or more ranks constitutes a stop.

  4. Mixture (organ stop) - Wikipedia

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    A mixture is an organ stop, usually of principal tone quality, that contains multiple ranks of pipes including at least one mutation stop.It is designed to be drawn with a combination of stops that forms a complete chorus, for example, principals of 8 foot (8 ′), 4 ′, and 2 ′ pitches.

  5. Kienle Resonator System - Wikipedia

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    Consequently, the sound of a great number of organ pipes can be reproduced with a relatively small number of resonators so that the required total number of emitting elements is considerably reduced without any noticeable loss of sound quality. While in larger pipe organs several thousand, sometimes even more than 10,000 organ pipes are ...

  6. Organ building - Wikipedia

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    Organ building is the profession of designing, building, restoring and maintaining pipe organs. The organ builder usually receives a commission to design an organ with a particular disposition of stops , manuals , and actions , creates a design to best respond to spatial, technical and acoustic considerations, and then constructs the instrument.

  7. Why the Organ At Baseball Games? - AOL

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    It's the sound that signifies America's past time. The organ pairs baseball with the tones of the past and present. And it was first heard over 80 years ago at Wrigley Field on Chicago's north ...

  8. Voicing (music) - Wikipedia

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    Various voicings: V/V-V-I progression. 1st ⓘ, [1] 2nd ⓘ, [2] 3rd ⓘ, [3] 4th ⓘ, 5th ⓘ [4] and 6th ⓘ [4]. In music theory, voicing refers to two closely related concepts: . How a musician or group distributes, or spaces, notes and chords on one or more instruments

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