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  2. Pipe organ - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. List of pipe organs - Wikipedia

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    23,500 pipes; The organ is the largest all-pipe organ, in a religious structure, in the world. 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. It is continually being enlarged.

  4. Theatre organ - Wikipedia

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    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. Theatre organs have horseshoe-shaped arrangements of stop tabs (tongue-shaped switches) above and around the instrument's keyboards on their consoles.

  5. Sydney Opera House Grand Organ - Wikipedia

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    It is in six divisions, five manuals plus pedals, and is the largest tracker action organ ever built, with 131 speaking stops served by 200 ranks of pipes consisting of 10,244 pipes. It is a neo-baroque organ in style. The contract for the construction of the organ was awarded in 1969, during the construction of the Opera House, and the organ ...

  6. 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 .

  7. Pipe organ tuning - Wikipedia

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    Pipe organ tuning. 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 ...

  8. List of Lowrey organs - Wikipedia

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    Description. Berkshire Deluxe TBO-1. 1968. Organ with 2 44 key manuals, 13 bass pedals, built-in spring reverb, Leslie effect, and marimba effect famously known from Baba O'Riley by The Who played by Pete Townshend. [2] The TBO-1 is a slightly upgraded version of the older but otherwise identical Berkshire TBO (1966). Carnival (C500)

  9. Pump organ - Wikipedia

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    Pump organ. A hand-pumped Indian harmonium, of the type used in South Asia, here used at a European jazz festival. The pump organ or reed organ is a type of organs using free-reeds that generates sound as air flows past a vibrating pieces of thin metal in a frame. These pieces of metal are called a free-reeds.

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