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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.
A manual is a musical keyboard designed to be played with the hands, on an instrument such as a pipe organ, harpsichord, clavichord, electronic organ, melodica, or synthesizer.
Beginning. Pipe organ. Mechanical organ. Electronic organ. References. Organ (music) 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.
Jan 12, 2017 · 12 January 2017, 14:25 | Updated: 5 October 2017, 10:18. By Amy MacKenzie. This is the ultimate list of organ music, ranging from powerful symphonies to delicate toccatas. So it's not *techinically* an organ piece, but this is brilliant – Cameron Carpenter plays the Gigue from JS Bach: French Suite No. 5. His album All you need is Bach is here.
August 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message) An organ symphony is a piece for solo pipe organ in various movements . It is a symphonic genre, not so much in musical form (in which it is more similar to the organ sonata or suite ), but in imitating orchestral tone color, texture, and symphonic process.
Electronic organs and electromechanical organs such as the Hammond organ have an established role in a number of popular-music genres, such as blues, jazz, gospel, and 1960s and 1970s rock music. Electronic and electromechanical organs were originally designed as lower-cost substitutes for pipe organs.
The English organ: how it evolved through history - Classical ...
