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  2. Organ console - Wikipedia

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    Organ console. 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 ...

  3. Organ stop - Wikipedia

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    The term can also refer to the control that operates this mechanism, commonly called a stop tab, stop knob, or drawknob. On electric or electronic organs that imitate a pipe organ, the same terms are often used, with the exception of the Hammond organ and clonewheel organs , which use the term " drawbar ".

  4. List of pipe organ stops - Wikipedia

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    the control on an organ console that selects a particular sound; the row of organ pipes used to create a particular sound, more appropriately known as a rank; the sound itself; Organ stops are sorted into four major types: principal, string, reed, and flute. This is a sortable list of names that may be found associated with electronic and pipe ...

  5. Registration (organ) - Wikipedia

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    Registration (organ) Registration is the technique of choosing and combining the stops of a pipe organ in order to produce a particular sound. Registration can also refer to a particular combination of stops, which may be recalled through combination action. The registration chosen for a particular piece will be determined by a number of ...

  6. 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.

  7. List of Hammond organs - Wikipedia

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    Vacuum tube musical instruments. Transistor organs. Digital organs. References. List of Hammond organs. Appearance. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Aeolian Hammond BA player organ with Hammond tone cabinet (1938) The Hammond organ is an electric organ, invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert [ 1 ] and first manufactured in 1935. [ 2 ]

  8. Aortic arch - Wikipedia

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    As a part of the aorta, the entire body, with exception of the respiratory zone of the lung and the heart. The aortic arch, arch of the aorta, or transverse aortic arch (English: / eɪˈɔːrtɪk / [1][2]) is the part of the aorta between the ascending and descending aorta. The arch travels backward, so that it ultimately runs to the left of ...

  9. Residence organ - Wikipedia

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    A residence organ (also known variously as a house, box, cabinet, choir, continuo, home, practice, trunk, or chamber organ) is a musical organ installed in a personal home. Strictly speaking, the names residence and house organ are the most correct, the others being types of organs that can physically be used as residence organs, but that are ...