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- As in a traditional pipe organ, a theatre organ uses pressurized air to produce musical tones. Unification and extension give the theatre organ its unique flexibility. A rank is extended by adding pipes above and below the original pitch, allowing the organist to play that rank at various pitches by selecting separate stop tabs.
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Theatre Organ History - How They Work. When we experience the magic of a theatre pipe organ installed in a movie palace, we see the organ console down by the stage and we hear the music emanating from various locations around the auditorium. But what is an organ? What are its parts? And how does it all work?
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.
The King of Instruments! An elaborate residence Theatre Pipe Organ installation. (Note the organ pipe chambers on either side of the elaborately decorated white console) The Theatre Pipe Organ is a uniquely American musical instrument.
The first pipe organs to appear in theatres were little more than transplanted church organs. While they looked and sounded impressive, they were ill-suited to the performance of the popular music of the day--a necessity in the realm of the theatre.
The first organs built, long ago, solved that problem very simply. The organ keys were physically connected to the pipe valves. These “tracker” organs obviously had limitations. The console had to be situated right next to the pipes, and flexibility was limited by physical space constraints.
We have thus compiled some brief definitions of typical organ components: In the organ chambers: Pipe Ranks. Rank of Pipes - A set of pipes which produce the same sound up and down the musical scale. ie Flute, Diapason, Violin, Tuba, Trumpet, Clarinet, Saxophone, Post Horn, Kinura, etc. Some pipes are made of metal, others of wood.
