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	Pipe organ - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Organs were also known to exist in Byzantine times, as well as in Islamic Spain, though there is no evidence that the European organ came by way of Spain.
		In medieval times, the portable instruments (the "portatif" or "portative" organ and the "positive" organ) were invented, and these were used for accompaniment for both sacred and secular music, in a variety of settings—since unlike other organs, they were easily moved.
		For example, on many organs there is a group of pipes operated by the manual second closest to the player, and all of these pipes are contained in a chamber called a swell box which has louvred shutters to control the volume of the sound.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pipe_organ (3673 words)

	ORGAN - Definition
		An instrument or medium by which some important action is performed, or an important end accomplished; as, legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers, etc., are organs of government.
		Note: In animals the organs are generally made up of several tissues, one of which usually predominates, and determines the principal function of the organ.
		A medium of communication between one person or body and another; as, the secretary of state is the organ of communication between the government and a foreign power; a newspaper is the organ of its editor, or of a party, sect, etc.
	www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/organ (573 words)

	Charles Fisk: A Fond Remembrance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On an instrument of this dimension, memorization of the sequences of registrations is indispensable.
		As the organ Commission desired, two successive competitions were organized: the first concerned the choice of the organ maker, the second the choice of the architect-designer to whom the final design of the case would be entrusted.
		This should not be the last of the merits of the new organ of the cathedral that it contribute to a renovated advance for the organ concert.
	www.cbfisk.com /120/jcg.html (5232 words)

	Penn State News
		Wakeland selected the instruments he will be demonstrating for their artistic appeal and because they are acoustically unlike conventional instruments.
		The Penn State researcher explains that the long string instrument operates by setting up longitudinal waves in the strings while standard instruments such as the violin, guitar or piano, use motion that is transverse to the length of the string.
		Standard string instruments also are tuned by tightening the strings while the long string instrument uses weights attached at various points on the strings.
	www.psu.edu /ur/2000/newmusic.html (900 words)

	GIA Quarterly Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To compensate for the loss of attack, the organs' keyboards and pedals were electrically connected to real acoustic instruments such a s piano, bells, and percussion.
		On the other hand, piano accompaniments are played on the organ without adaptation in many of our churches every week, producing overly detached and percussive sounds that are not idiomatic to the instrument or helpful to the assembly.
		And as we strive for eclecticism in a multifaceted church, may the organ and its repertoire not be a relic of the past, but continue to flourish.
	www.giamusic.com /sacred_music/giaq/2000summer.html (1682 words)

	Organ Architect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The instrument was relocated to Christian Reformed Church of Whitinsville, Massachusetts, by 1943, and greatly altered in 1947.
		The organ, considered one of the most important parts of the church, was installed by the M. Möller Co. of Hagerstown, Md., famous builder of fine organs, at a cost of $39,000.
		The organ was unique in many ways --- with a total of 2,962 pipes, three manuals, the usual pedal keys and five distinct subdivisions, 64 complete stops, which included 17 of organ tone, 13 flute tone, 19 viola tone, 8 reed tone and 8 bass tone.
	members.aol.com /gaaudsley/OrgansFrame1Source1.htm (7554 words)

	MIDIWorks.ca
		The organ is the ONLY musical instrument that is designed and built to generate the type and amount of sound appropriate for the room in which it is to live.
		A pipe organ is designed with appropriate quantities, sizes and types of stops to suit the needs of the room in which the organ is to live.
		Organs are the only musical instrument that can be tailored to suit the room in which they are installed.
	www.midiworks.ca /support/faqs.asp (1703 words)

	120 Years of Electronic Music
		Givelet's instrument was based on the same technology, vacuum lamp oscillators, as the Theremin and Ondes-Martenot but the "Wave Organ" had an oscillator for each key therefore the instrument was polyphonic, a distinct advantage over its rivals despite the amount of room needed to house the huge machine.
		The organ had over 700 vacuum oscillator tubes to give it a pitch range of 70 notes and ten different timbres - for each different timbre a different set of tubes was used.
		The Piano Radio-Électrique was a small electric organ type instrument equipped with the player piano mechanism of the Orgue-des-ondes controlling a set of oscillators mounted in a separate cabinet, it could be accompanied on the piano played manually or using a second electropneumatic system controlled by the player piano.
	www.obsolete.com /120_years/machines/orgue_des_ondes (444 words)

	Kimmel Center, Inc. > Kimmel Center Organ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Instrument Total Weight: The total weight of the organ and its structure will be approximately 32 tons.
		Organs are often described by the number of ranks they have.
		The instrument is scheduled for installation during the summer of 2005 and will be premiered in the spring of 2006 with a Gala and International Festival including Philadelphia Orchestra performances, newly commissioned works, symposia and community events.
	www.kimmelcenter.org /facilities/organ.php (1367 words)

	Callanwolde Fine Arts Center \| Aeolian Organ \| Callanwolde Guild \| Organ Concerts \| Atlanta, Georgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The organ, which was specially designed for the house and installed during its construction, was purchased from the Aeolian Pipe Organ Company of New York for approximately $48,200.
		The organ's original console bench was gone and Charles surmised that the console would probably have been carried away as well had it not been bolted to the floor.
		Pressurized wind for all the organ, with the exception of the Solo Organ, is provided by a five horsepower electric blower in the basement of the house.
	www.callanwolde.org /tour/organ.html (2452 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Organ
		The keys in the early medieval organs were not, it seems, levers, as in the ancient organ and modern instruments, but simply the projecting ends of the slides, being, presumably, furnished with some simple device making it convenient for the fingers to push in or pull out the slides.
		At all events, a strong objection to the organ in church service remained pretty general down to the twelfth century, which may be accounted for partly by the imperfection of tone in organs of that time.
		The organ alone may even take the place of the voices in alternate verses at Mass or in the Office, provided the text so treated be recited by someone in an audible voice while the organ is played.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11297a.htm (6026 words)

	Organ Articles
		Early records of the organs at Holy Trinity refer to 'a pair of organs with seven stops, with the image of the Trinite on toppe of the case' built by John Howe and John Clynmore in 1526.
		In 1570, part of this organ was sold; Holy Trinity was without an organ for almost 60 years, when in 1632, a new instrument was given by a cleric.
		This instrument was subsequently damaged at the hands of the Puritans in 1641, and afterwards it too, was sold.
	members.aol.com /htchrch/organarticles.html (1856 words)

	Organs
		Located in Appleton Chapel is the Isham Memorial Organ, built in 1967 by Charles B. Fisk of Gloucester, Massachusetts, a Harvard physicist who in founded one of the most respected organ building companies in the country today.
		This confirmed his growing dissatisfaction with the G. Donald Harrison instrument, and he conceived the notion of commissioning a new instrument for the hall from Flentrop, a Dutch builder whose instruments were known for their inspired re-interpretation of the Baroque models.
		This instrument was among the first examples (and for many years by far the most prominent) of the "Baroque" or historical organ revival; Flentrop subsequently installed many other instruments throughout the United States.
	hcs.harvard.edu /~organ/organs.php (752 words)

	Organ, Keyboard Instrument
		Keyboard instruments are often classified as percussion instruments because they play a rhythmic role in some music.
		However, most keyboard instruments are not true members of the percussion family because their sound is not produced by the vibration of a membrane or solid material.
		The organ in the Meyerson Symphony Center was designed and created by the Fisk Organ Company of Glouceter, Massachusetts.
	www.dsokids.com /2001/dso.asp?PageID=259 (239 words)

	Historic Elsinore Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Live pipe organ music was enjoyed in the home for twenty years, before the decision was made to remove it.
		Moyer to install their pipe organ in the theatre’s existing chambers, left vacant in 1962 when the original 13 rank Wurlitzer was removed.
		All maintenance on the instrument is done by a volunteer crew, assisted and supervised by Rick and Clayton Parks.
	www.elsinoretheatre.com /organ.htm (518 words)

	Car Horn Organ: A Brief History
		The instrument is comprised of 25 car horns operated by a homemade keyboard and powered by a car battery charger.
		She and her instrument are in the April issue of Smithsonian Magazine (1999).
		She believes she got the idea for the instrument while asleep in her apartment in Brooklyn, waking up to a distant traffic jam on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway that sounded like a Mahler symphony.
	www.wendymae.com /carhornorgan.html (270 words)

	253 Million Possible Tones
		Plaintiffs argued that the instrument didn‘t come even close to the sound of a pipe organ, and could not legally even be called an “organ.” The complaint further charged the Hammond company with misrepresentation of the tone quality and value of the Hammond instrument.
		Pipe organ proponents quite rightly can show the Hammond‘s many weaknesses — not the least of which are due to a scarcity of harmonics; furthermore, the dissonant “harmonics” of the drawbar system are completely out of tune; and the temperament of the instrument is off of Equal Temperament by as much as 0.7 cents.
		These “new uses” for the Hammond Organ came about despite the wishes of Laurens Hammond who was ardently opposed to such “vulgarity.” His idea for the Hammond Organ was as originally marketed and advertised — a vehicle for entertainment in the home and as a low-cost replacement for church pipe organs.
	www.137.com /hammond (1942 words)

	Solo Organ/Keyboard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The instrument known as “The Great Organs of First Church” is, quite simply, one of the wonders of the musical world.
		The use of antiphonal organs was an established practice in Italy and Spain by 1600, but organ and harpsichord was also a popular combination.
		The Fisk is a sister instrument to the Dallas organ and reflects research by the Fisk company on the organs of Cavaillé-Coll.
	www.gothicrecords.com /soloorgan.html (2805 words)

	Dobson Pipe Organ Builders, Ltd. - Instruments
		The organ was the only American organ to be featured in the 14th edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica, and most of the great concert organists of our time have performed on it.
		Three purposes guided the building and design of this instrument: first, that it be a fitting leader for liturgical worship; second, that it faithfully accommodate a wide variety of organ literature in recital (particularly the music of Bach and his contemporaries); and finally, that it be a useful teaching instrument.
		The instrument was re-dedicated at the morning Eucharist on September 15, 1996, and was featured that afternoon in a recital by John Scott, Organist and Director of Music at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, to an audience of over 2,000 people, echoing the record crowd of the 1959 dedication.
	www.dobsonorgan.com /html/instruments/resto_rebuild/valparaiso.html (660 words)

	Korg BX3 Combo Organ - zZounds.com
		For years, if you wanted the sound of a real tone-wheel organ, there was only one instrument that could deliver — until the CX-3 was introduced in 2000.
		One of the unique characteristics of a genuine tone-wheel organ is the percussive effect that adds a readily identifiable sound to a note's attack.
		Drawbars, vibrato/chorus, and percussion switches are placed in the same location as on the classic tone-wheel organs, demonstrating a total commitment to tradition and playability.
	www.zzounds.com /item--KORBX3 (1072 words)

	NEMESYS MUSIC TECHNOLOGY
		Peter Ewers's Symphonic Organ Samples ($179) re-creates the historic sound of the grand pipe organ built by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll in 1846 for the Saint Madeleine Cathedral in Paris.
		The first Instrument, Symphonic Organ Tutti, beautifully captures the full sound of the organ over a 61-note range (C2 to C7) with all stops out.
		The samples for the five Instruments were recorded at a 44.1 kHz sampling rate with 20-bit resolution and then dithered down to 16 bits.
	emusician.com /libraries/emusic_nemesys_music_technology_2 (619 words)

	oddmusic.com musical instrument gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This most unique, one-of-a-kind instrument was invented in 1954 by Mr.
		When a key is depressed, a tone occurs as the rubber-tipped plunger strikes the stalactite tuned to concert pitch.
		Close-up of one of the mallets which strike a stalactite when an organ key is pressed.
	www.oddmusic.com /gallery/om25450.html (154 words)

	Instrument Jokes
		The organ is the instrument of worship for in its sounding we sense the Majesty of God and in its ending we know the Grace of God.
		It had been decided that during this performance, once the bass players had played their parts in the opening of the symphony, they were to quietly lay down their instruments and leave the stage, rather than sit on thier stools looking and feeling dumb for twenty minutes.
		What notes this instrument is called upon to play could, subject to a satisfactory demarcation conference with the Musician's Union, be shared out equitably amongst the other instruments.
	www.mit.edu /people/jcb/jokes (9107 words)

	Howe Collection of Musical Instrument Literature: Organ Series
		The Howe Collection of Musical Instrument Literature documents the history of the music industry in the United States.
		The Organ portion of the collection chronicles the history of organ manufacturers, including companies such as Estey Organ Company, Mason and Hamlin Organ and Piano Company, Story and Clark Organ Company, and The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company.
		The Howe Collection is arranged according to the original order imposed by the indexes compiled by the collector; therefore, the arrangement reflects the donor's organizational schema.
	www.lib.umd.edu /PAL/organ.html (347 words)

	Organ & Instrument
		C or Bb Hymn Descants for Treble Instruments
		Solos and Duets for C Instruments : Vol.
		C or Bb Voluntaries for Trumpet and Organ
	www.opus-two.com /Organ.Instruments.html (413 words)

	Keyboard Instrument & Organ Appraisal Service - Discover the Value of Your Keyboard Instrument/Organ - Used ...
		Keyboard Instrument & Organ Appraisal Service - Discover the Value of Your Keyboard Instrument/Organ - Used Keyboard/Organ Prices
		"Keyboards" include: acoustic keyboard instruments (except pianos); electric/electronic, analog or digital keyboards or pianos; organs;
		All used keyboard values are determined by broad and accurate market research, involving comparison of the property with similar items which have sold within the current retail market.
	www.concertpitchpiano.com /KeyboardAppraisal.html (425 words)

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