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In music, the organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means (generally woodwind or electric) for producing tones. The organs have usually two or three, up to five, manuals for playing with the hands and a pedalboard for playing with the feet.
When was the organ invented? - Classical Music
May 28, 2018 · The pressing of any one key opened wind to a row of pipes. Stops kept wind from operating all of the other pipes in the same row. By 1474, S. Petronio, Bologna, had a full scale 50 note organ with 9 stops. By the year 1500, the average organ in western Europe probably consisted of 10 separate stops.
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Organ, in music, a keyboard instrument, operated by the player’s hands and feet, in which pressurized air produces notes through a series of pipes organized in scalelike rows. The term organ encompasses reed organs and electronic organs but, unless otherwise specified, is usually understood to refer to pipe organs.
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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 organ was re-introduced to the West in 757 when a Byzantine leader sent an organ as a diplomatic gift to Pepin, father of the great king Charlemagne (742-814). This organ, with an elaborate system of pipes, stops, and bellows, was celebrated as an engineering marvel, and was used for public rather than religious ceremony.
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