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The organ is played with at least one keyboard, with configurations featuring from two to five keyboards being the most common. A keyboard to be played by the hands is called a manual (from the Latin manus , "hand"); an organ with four keyboards is said to have four manuals.
Keyboard instrument; Other names: Organ, Church organ (used only for organs in houses of worship) Classification: Aerophone: Hornbostel–Sachs classification: 422.222.11 (flue pipes) 422.122 (beating reed pipes) 422.132 (free reed pipes) Inventor(s) Ctesibius: Developed: 3rd century BC: Playing range; Related instruments; see Organ: Builders
Pipe organs range in size from a single short keyboard to huge instruments with over 10,000 pipes. A large modern organ typically has three or four keyboards ( manuals) with five octaves (61 notes) each, and a two-and-a-half octave (32-note) pedal board .
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.
Manual (music) The console of the Great Organ at the Church of St Sulpice built by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll in 1862. An electronic organ with three manuals. The two lower manuals are each five octaves in range, while the uppermost manual spans two octaves. The word " manual " is used instead of the word "keyboard" when referring to any hand ...
accordion, harmonica, pump organ, yu. The melodica is a handheld free-reed instrument similar to a pump organ or harmonica. It features a musical keyboard on top, and is played by blowing air through a mouthpiece that fits into a hole in the side of the instrument. The keyboard usually covers two or three octaves.
The organ is famed for its orchestra-like sound, coming from pipes that are voiced softer than usual, allowing an unusually rich build-up because of the massing of pipe-tone families. The organ was also built and enlarged as an "art organ", using exceptional craftsmanship and lavish application of materials to create a luxury product.
An organ pedalboard is a keyboard with long pedals played by the organist's feet. Pedalboards vary in size from 12 to 32 notes or 42 on a touring organ used by Cameron Carpenter. In a typical keyboard layout, black note keys have uniform width, and white note keys have uniform
A mixture is an organ stop, usually of principal tone quality, that contains multiple ranks of pipes including at least one mutation stop. It is designed to be drawn with a combination of stops that forms a complete chorus, for example, principals of 8 foot (8 ′ ), 4 ′ , and 2 ′ pitches.
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. Theatre organs have horseshoe-shaped arrangements of stop tabs (tongue-shaped switches) above and around the instrument's keyboards on their consoles.