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There are few pipe organs in the world that have a nickname, a feminine pronoun and a Facebook fan page. The Hazel Wright organ — just “Hazel,” to her admirers — was removed piece by piece ...
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.
The Hazel Wright Organ is an American pipe organ located in Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, California. It is one of the world's largest pipe organs. It is one of the world's largest pipe organs. As of 2019, it has 293 ranks and 17,106 pipes, fully playable from two 5-manual consoles.
Musicians with cornua and a water organ, detail from the Zliten mosaic, 2nd century CE. The water organ or hydraulic organ (Greek: ὕδραυλις) (early types are sometimes called hydraulos, hydraulus or hydraula) is a type of pipe organ blown by air, where the power source pushing the air is derived by water from a natural source (e.g. by a waterfall) or by a manual pump.
An electric organ, also known as electronic organ, is an electronic keyboard instrument which was derived from the harmonium, pipe organ and theatre organ. Originally designed to imitate their sound, or orchestral sounds, it has since developed into several types of instruments:
Organs trace their history as far back as at least the 3rd century BC with an organlike device known as the hydraulis.Also known as a "water organ" or "Roman organ", the hydraulis was an instrument in which water was used as a source of power to push wind through organ pipes.
The cabinet carried a balanced mono signal and AC power directly from the organ via a six-pin cable. [93] [94] Spinet organs contained their own built-in amplifier and speakers. [29] The tone cabinet was originally the only method of adding reverberation to a Hammond organ. [95] The first models to be produced were the 20-watt A-20 and 40-watt ...
An organ that utilizes tubular-pneumatic action is commonly called a "tubular-pneumatic organ". It seems the first use of this action was in 1851, in Willis' Great Exhibition organ, though it was only very limited. It appears that the first organ using tubular-pneumatic action throughout was by T.C. Lewis at St Andrew's Hall, Glasgow, in 1877.