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This article describes the process and techniques involved in the tuning of a pipe organ. Electronic organs typically do not require tuning.
A pipe organ produces sound via hundreds or thousands of organ pipes, each of which produces a single pitch and timbre. The goal of tuning a pipe organ is to adjust the pitch of each pipe so that they all sound in tune with each other.
in the tuning of a pipeorgan. Electronic organs typically do not require tuning. A pipeorgan produces sound via hundreds or thousands of organ pipes...
An organpipe is a sound-producing element of the pipeorgan that resonates at a specific pitch when pressurized air (commonly referred to as wind) is...
pitch of the flue pipe. The conical taper of the pipe determines the overblown pitch. If the pipe is metal, a tuning sleeve or tuning collar may be fixed...
The pipeorgan is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called wind) through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard....
evidenced by tuning forks of that era in France. The pipeorgantuning fork in Versailles Chapel from 1795 is 390 Hz, an 1810 Paris Opera tuning fork sounds...
An organ stop is a component of a pipeorgan that admits pressurized air (known as wind) to a set of organ pipes. Its name comes from the fact that stops...
A reed pipe (also referred to as a lingual pipe) is an organpipe that is sounded by a vibrating brass strip known as a reed. Air under pressure (referred...
principle is the same as a traditional pipeorgan, but rather than being played by an organist, the barrel organ is activated either by a person turning...
of the just octave in Pythagorean tuning Diapason (pipeorgan), a tonal grouping of the flue pipes of a pipeorgan Diapason (magazine), a French classical...
Organ building is the profession of designing, building, restoring and maintaining pipeorgans. The organ builder usually receives a commission to design...
tuning fork. They are also useful for establishing what pitch standard was being used at a particular place and time. Although few look like a pipe,...
reeds Pipes and drums or pipe bands, composed of musicians who play the Scottish and Irish bagpipes Organpipe, one of the tuned resonators that produces...
Quimby PipeOrgans, Inc. is an American builder of pipeorgans, based in Warrensburg, Missouri. The firm was founded in 1970 by Michael Quimby, President...
The water organ or hydraulic organ (Greek: ὕδραυλις) (early types are sometimes called hydraulos, hydraulus or hydraula) is a type of pipeorgan blown by...
A theatre organ (also known as a theater organ, or, especially in the United Kingdom, a cinema organ) is a type of pipeorgan developed to accompany silent...
The Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ, known also as the Midmer-Losh and the Poseidon, is the pipeorgan in the Main Auditorium of the Boardwalk Hall (formerly...
electric organ, also known as electronic organ, is an electronic keyboard instrument which was derived from the harmonium, pipeorgan and theatre organ. Originally...
Levsen Organ Company is a manufacturer of pipeorgans based out of Buffalo, Iowa, which is near the Quad Cities. Levsen began operations as a tuning and...
originally marketed by the Hammond Organ Company to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipeorgan, or instead of a piano. It quickly...
instrument was made in 1780 in Denmark. More portable than pipeorgans, free-reed organs were widely used in smaller churches and in private homes in...
they do not need to be tuned, and their tuning can be modified to match the tuning of another instrument (e.g. a pipeorgan). Like other electronic musical...
associated with electronic and pipeorgan stops. Countless stops have been designed over the centuries, and individual organs may have stops, or names of...
standard organ pedagogy in church music and art music. Pedalboards are found at the base of the console of most pipeorgans, pedal pianos, theatre organs, and...
rebuilt and enlarged existing pipeorgans. The firm also provides regular service work and tuning for approximately fifty organs. Charles Hendrickson serves...
by clockwork driven by weights or springs. Usually, mechanical organs are pipeorgans although some instruments were built using reeds similar to those...
The Peragallo PipeOrgan Company of Paterson, New Jersey, United States, was founded in 1918 by John Peragallo Sr., who, prior to founding the company...