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    An organ stop is a component of a pipe organ that admits pressurized air (known as wind) to a set of organ pipes. Its name comes from the fact that stops...
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  • An organ stop can be one of three things: the control on an organ console that selects a particular sound the row of organ pipes used to create a particular...
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    its own division (group of stops). The keyboard(s), pedalboard, and stops are housed in the organ's console. The organ's continuous supply of wind allows...
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  • Organ Stop Pizza is a restaurant located in Mesa, Arizona. It is known for being the home of what it says is the largest Wurlitzer theatre organ in the...
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  • mixture is an organ stop, usually of principal tone quality, that contains multiple ranks of pipes including at least one mutation stop. It is designed...
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  • directed by Kim Ki-duk Double stop, the act of playing two notes simultaneously Organ stop, a component of a pipe organ Stop (Stockhausen), a composition...
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    records in the organ world. It is one of only two organs in the world to have an open 64-foot rank, and the only organ to have stops voiced on 100 inches...
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  • Petronio Basilica in Bologna there is a Lorenzo da Prato organ built in 1475 with a lot of original stops, and is still playable after a restoration took place...
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    Gemshorn (section Organ stop)
    gemshorn organ stop, modeled after this instrument. Its pipes are conical, with the wind going in at the wide end, as in the actual gemshorn. In organ pipe...
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  • combining the stops of a pipe organ in order to produce a particular sound. Registration can also refer to a particular combination of stops, which may be...
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  • (/ˈɒfɪklaɪd/ OFF-ih-klyde) and Contra Ophicleide are powerful pipe organ reed pipes used as organ stops. The name comes from the early brass instrument, the ophicleide...
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    pipe) is an organ pipe that produces sound through the vibration of air molecules, in the same manner as a recorder or a whistle, in a pipe organ. Air under...
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  • A cornet, or Jeu de Tierce, is a compound organ stop, containing multiple ranks of pipes. The individual ranks are, properly, of flute tone quality but...
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    On organs, the stops labelled "Fifteenth" ("Superoctave" or "Superoktave") are two octaves above the principal (diapason), or an octave above stops labelled...
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  • similar to a recorder. Flageolet may also refer to: Flageolet (organ stop), a pipe organ component The flageolet bean, a type of common bean A method of...
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  • thinnest string 1+3⁄5′ Tierce organ stop 2′ two feet – pipe organ indication; see Organ stop § Pitch and length 2+2⁄3′ pipe organ stop for the twelfth interval...
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  • often used for statistical classification Mixture (organ stop), a special kind of pipe organ stop which has several pipes to each note Bombay mix, called...
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    Lowrey had earlier developed an attachment for a piano, adding electronic organ stops on 60 notes while keeping the piano functionality, called the Organo...
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    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...
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    silent films, from the 1900s to the 1920s. Theatre organs have horseshoe-shaped arrangements of stop tabs (tongue-shaped switches) above and around the...
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    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...
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    scale. A set of organ pipes of similar timbre comprising the complete scale is known as a rank; one or more ranks constitutes a stop. Organ pipes are generally...
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    and four on the bass side. Reed ranks are classified by either organ 'foot-length' stops or instrument names. Visually, they each have a fixed dot in a...
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  • Voix céleste (category String type organ stops)
    The Voix celeste (French: Voix céleste, lit. 'heavenly voice') is an organ stop consisting of either one or two ranks of pipes slightly out of tune. The...
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  • Plein jeu (category Principal type organ stops)
    romantic organs, (e.g. the organs of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll), Plein-jeu also has been the name of a single organ stop, being a mixture. On English organs, it...
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    by Jürgen Ahrend and Gerhard Brunzema in 1959. The organ has seven stops on one manual. An organ was probably built in Rysum in the middle of the 15th...
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    contains one of only two full-length 64′ organ stops in the world (the Contra-Trombone in the pedal). The other 64′ stop is the Diaphone-Dulzian in the Right...
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  • is a list of stops for the Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ, the largest pipe organ in the world as measured by number of pipes. The organ is located in...
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    electric organ, also known as electronic organ, is an electronic keyboard instrument which was derived from the harmonium, pipe organ and theatre organ. Originally...
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    Vox humana (category Reed type organ stops)
    celeste stop, q.v.) is a short-resonator reed stop on the pipe organ, so named because of its supposed resemblance to the human voice. As a rule, the stop is...
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