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César Franck: 5th part taken from "L'organiste", played on a Debain pump organ (1878) A hand-pumped Indian harmonium , of the type used in South Asia, here used at a European jazz festival. The pump organ or reed organ is a type of organ using free-reeds that generates sound as air flows past the free-reeds, the vibrating pieces of thin metal ...
The largest full pipe organ produced by the company was the Second Baptist Church Houston, Texas organ with five manuals and 187 pipe ranks. [7] It was dedicated on August 23, 1987 and featured concerts on August 23 and 24th by organist Frederick Swann. In addition, it was the featured organ of the 1988 Houston National Convention of the ...
Pipe Organ Services Ltd. (c.1985–present)- formerly Salisbury, and since 1996 Saxby, Melton Mowbray. [ 77 ] Positive Organ Company Ltd (2020–present) – Brackley , Northamptonshire [ 78 ]
The society aims to be a ready resource for nonmembers seeking to discover the significance and potential avenues of restoration for instruments in their care. The society sometimes gets involved with local efforts to preserve or replace pipe organs, as on the Duke University campus in 1988 or with two Pittsburgh-area organs in 2010. [3] [4]
More than 100 are in the "Houston Heights" neighborhood whose borders are, approximately, Highway I-10 on the South, I-610 on the North, 45 on the East and Durham on the West. The "inner Harris County" area is defined as the rest of the area within the Interstate 610 loop; "outer Harris County" is defined as the rest of Harris County. There are ...
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The organ is the only Austin-manufactured one remaining in the Southeast. [31] Opus 1215 – Saint Matthew Lutheran Church, Hanover, Pennsylvania. Organ has four manuals, 231 ranks, and is among the world's largest. (1924) [32] [33] Opus 1267 – First United Methodist Church, Elgin, Illinois – Restored by Rogers Instruments Corp. in 2004.
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.