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Melodica. The melodica, also known as the "blow- organ " or "key- flute ", is a wind instrument with a 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 is usually two or three octaves long. Melodicas are small, light, and portable. They are popular in music ...
The music of Laos includes the music of the Lao people, a Tai ethnic group, and other ethnic groups living in Laos. The traditional music of Laos has similarities with the traditional music of Thailand and Cambodia, including the names of the instruments and influences and developments. To categorize Lao music, it seems helpful to distinguish ...
Staff (music) A typical five-line staff. In Western musical notation, the staff [1] [2] ( UK also stave; [3] plural: staffs or staves ), [1] also occasionally referred to as a pentagram, [4] [5] [6] is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch or in the case of a percussion staff, different ...
The organ at the Basilica of St. Martin (Weingarten), the monastery church of the Weingarten Abbey was built by Joseph Gabler [Wikidata] between 1737 and 1750. In addition to the large organ he also built the small choir organ in 1743, but this has since been renovated or completely rebuilt.
French organ school. The French organ school formed in the first half of the 17th century. It progressed from the strict polyphonic music of Jean Titelouze (c. 1563–1633) to a unique, richly ornamented style with its own characteristic forms that made full use of the French classical organ. Instrumental in establishing this style were Louis ...
The pipe organ is one of the oldest musical instruments with the most intricately-made components in the world. Aula Simfonia Jakarta possesses a Cassavant Freres production from 1962 with 3217 pipes, with a total weight of more than 10 tons. Some of the organ pipes are used as a main decoration on the wall behind the music hall stage.
Recovered from the Anhang (BWV 1121 and 1128) BWV 1121 (=BWV Anh. 205) – Fantasie in C minor (organ) BWV 1128 (previously BWV Anh. 71) – Organ chorale fantasia Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält ( BWV Anh. II 71 was authenticated as a composition by Bach after Wilhelm Rust 's 1877 copy was recovered in March 2008).
