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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.
See media help. A calliope (see below for pronunciation) is an American and Canadian musical instrument that produces sound by sending a gas, originally steam or, more recently, compressed air, through large whistles —originally locomotive whistles. A calliope is typically very loud. Even some small calliopes are audible for miles.
Chamber organ in the Concert Room of St Cecilia's Hal.webm 2 min 14 s, 1,280 × 720; 5.87 MB Cor Kee bespeelt het orgel van de Parijse wereldtentoonselling.webm 1 min 1 s, 768 × 576; 8.14 MB De twaalfjarige organist Teun Musch.webm 1 min 45 s, 768 × 576; 13.66 MB
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 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 Simple English Wiktionary has a definition for: organ. This diagram shows the lowest and highest notes most organs can play. In music, organ is a word that can mean several kinds of musical instruments. The word comes from the Greek ὄργανον organon, which means "organ", "instrument", or "tool".
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.
