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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.
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.
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 ...
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.
List of pipe organs. The Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ, known also as the Midmer-Losh and the Poseidon, is the pipe organ in the Main Auditorium of the Boardwalk Hall (formerly known as the Atlantic City Convention Hall) in Atlantic City, New Jersey, built by the Midmer-Losh Organ Company. It is the largest organ in the world, as measured by ...
Nord C Series. The Clavia Nord C1, Nord C2, Nord C2D are digital keyboards aimed at emulating various vintage organs. The Nord C1 was released in 2007, aimed mainly at the "gigging musician" as a digital replacement for the Hammond, Vox and Farfisa electric organs. [2] In 2009 it was replaced by the Nord C2, which added emulation of a baroque ...
The Grand Organ (described by its builder as The Voice of Jupiter) situated in the Royal Albert Hall in London is the second largest pipe organ in the United Kingdom, after the Liverpool Cathedral Grand Organ. It was originally built by Henry "Father" Willis and most recently rebuilt by Mander Organs. It has 147 stops [1] and, since the 2004 ...