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Console of the 3/13 Barton Theatre Pipe Organ at Ann Arbor's Michigan Theatre. 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. Console of the Rhinestone Barton theatre organ, installed in Theatre Cedar ...
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.
See also: Category:Pipe_organ. Please add organs and tag them with in progress when you start out doing one, to avoid more than one participant working on a list at the same time. Aarhus Cathedral DONE Danmuz 09:22, 29 December 2011 (UTC) Las Piñas Bamboo Organ DONE Danmuz 09:22, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
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. This organ is played for more than 300 services each year.