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Combo organs (1950s–) A combo organ ( Vox Continental) using transistors. It's light, compact and portable. By the 1960s, electronic organs were ubiquitous in all genres of popular music, from Lawrence Welk to acid rock (e.g. the Doors, Iron Butterfly) to the Bob Dylan album Blonde on Blonde.
The pump organ or reed organ is a type of free-reed organ that generates sound as air flows past a vibrating piece of thin metal in a frame. The piece of metal is called a reed. Specific types of pump organ include the American reed organ, the Indian harmonium, the physharmonica, and the seraphine. [1] The idea for the free reed was derived ...
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. A manual is a musical keyboard designed to be played with the hands, on an instrument such ...
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 ...
French organ school. The French organ school formed in the first half of the 17th century. It progressed from the strict polyphonic music of Jean Titelouze (c. 1563–1633) to a unique, richly ornamented style with its own characteristic forms that made full use of the French classical organ. Instrumental in establishing this style were Louis ...
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The symphonic organ is a style of pipe organ that flourished during the first three decades of the 20th century in town halls and other secular public venues, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. It has roots in 19th-century Europe, and is a variation of the classical pipe organ. It features expanded capabilities, with many ...
