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sixteen-foot pipe – pipe organ indication calling for one octave below 8 ′ 32 ′ thirty-two-foot pipe – pipe organ indication calling for two octaves below 8 ′ also called sub-bass 64 ′ sixty-four-foot pipe – pipe organ indication (only a few organs have this deep a pitch) A a or à (Fr.) at, to, by, for, in à la (Fr.) in the ...
A barrel organ plays music by using turning a barrel, with notes decided by an arrangement of pins. It is very similar to a simple music box where the pins pluck a metal harp. With a barrel organ, the pins in the barrel lift "keys" that open valves that let air from the bellows to play the pipes. The barrel organ is sometimes wrongly called a ...
A barrel organ (also called roller organ or crank organ) is a French [1] mechanical musical instrument consisting of bellows and one or more ranks of pipes housed in a case, usually of wood, and often highly decorated. The basic principle is the same as a traditional pipe organ, but rather than being played by an organist, the barrel organ is ...
A Mortier dance hall organ at the Great Dorset Steam Fair. At Museum Speelklok in Utrecht. A dance organ ( French: Orgue de danse) is a French mechanical organ designed to be used in a dance hall or ballroom. Originated and popularized in Paris, it is intended for use indoors as dance organs tend to be quieter than the similar fairground organ .
Harmonica. The harmonica, also known as a French harp, mouth harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica include diatonic, chromatic, tremolo, octave, orchestral, and bass versions.
Organ stop. The choir division of the organ at St. Raphael's Cathedral, Dubuque, Iowa. Shown here are several ranks of pipes, each of which would be controlled from one of the stops on the console. An organ stop is a component of a pipe organ that admits pressurized air (known as wind) to a set of organ pipes.
Percy William Whitlock (1 June 1903 in Chatham, Kent – 1 May 1946 in Bournemouth ), [1] was an English organist and post-romantic composer. Percy Whitlock studied at London's Royal College of Music with Charles Villiers Stanford and Ralph Vaughan Williams. From 1921 to 1930, Whitlock was assistant organist at Rochester Cathedral in Kent.