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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.
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The organ repertoire is considered to be the largest and oldest repertory of all musical instruments. [1] Because of the organ 's (or pipe organ 's) prominence in worship in Western Europe from the Middle Ages on, a significant portion of organ repertoire is sacred in nature. The organ's suitability for improvisation by a single performer is ...
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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.
- 3rd century BC
- Keyboard instrument (Aerophone)
- Organ, Church organ (used only for Pipe organs in houses of worship)
The English organ: how it evolved through history - Classical ...
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 ". Most organs are played using keyboards , one or more of which may be played using the feet .
Stefano Molardi is shaping his recorded survey of Bach’s complete organ music as self-sufficient and musically satisfying recitals which, disc by disc, explo...
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