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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.
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.
375 ranks; 23,500 pipes; 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. [39] It is continually being enlarged.
Bedient Pipe Organ Company, Lincoln, Nebraska [128] Bigelow & Company, American Fork, Utah [129] Buzard Pipe Organ Builders, LLC Champaign, IL (1985–) [130] GM Buck Pipe Organs, [131] Grand Rapids, Michigan; John Brombaugh & Associates, Eugene, Oregon; Dobson Pipe Organ Builders, Lake City, Iowa; E. and G. G. Hook & Hastings, Boston ...
The Wanamaker Organ is the largest fully functioning pipe organ in the world, based on the number of playing pipes, the number of ranks and its weight. [3] [4] It is a concert organ of the American Symphonic school of design, which combines traditional organ tone with the sonic colors of the symphony orchestra.
Finished in 2007, the 6500 pipes symphony organ with 94 stops is now the largest organ in China. [6] Ohio Wesleyan University, in Delaware, Ohio, U.S.: 82 Ranks 55 Stops 4,644 pipes [7] Overture Hall in Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. [8] Petronas Philharmonic Hall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Queensland Performing Arts Centre, in Brisbane, Australia ...
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 organ stops. Countless stops have been designed over the ...
The largest Wurlitzer organ originally built (in terms of pipes), was the four-manual / 58-rank (set of pipes) instrument at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The Music Hall instrument is actually a concert instrument, capable of playing a classical as well as non-classical repertoire.