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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 centuries, and individual organs may have stops, or names of stops, used nowhere else.
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. This organ is played for over 300 services each year.
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 .
Ophicleide ( / ˈɒfɪklaɪd / OFF-ih-klyde) and Contra Ophicleide are powerful pipe organ reed pipes used as organ stops. The name comes from the early brass instrument, the ophicleide, forerunner of the euphonium . The Ophicleide is generally at 16 ft pitch, and the Contra Ophicleide at 32 ft. While they can be 8 ft or 16 ft reeds in a manual ...
Gedackt. Cross-section of a wooden gedackt pipe. Gedackt (also spelled gedeckt) is the name of a family of stops in pipe organ building. They are one of the most common types of organ flue pipe. The name stems from the Middle High German word gedact, meaning "capped" or "covered".
Pipe organ. Articles on types of Pipe organ (e.g. Fairground organ) belong here, specific organs (e.g. Wanamaker organ) belong at Category:Individual pipe organs. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pipe organs.
Organ in the Aa-kerk in Groningen; Organ in the Jacobikerk at Uithuizen; Organ in the Martinikerk at Groningen; Organ of St Mary's Church (Tickhill) Organ of St. Ludgeri in Norden; Organ of St. Pankratius in Hamburg-Neuenfelde; Organ of St. Peter and Paul in Cappel; Organ of the Grasberg church; North German baroque organ in Örgryte Nya Kyrka