pipe organ

Noun

Meaning

wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

organ calliope accordion chamberlin keyboard instrument barrel organ harmonium celesta melodeon reed organ accordion keyboard organs church organ acoustic organ steam organ

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Antonyms

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Hypernyms

wind keyboard instrument wind instrument

Examples

I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man. Stephen Sondheim

By 1800, basso continuo was practically extinct, except for the occasional use of a pipe organ continuo part in a religious Mass in the early 1800s. Source: Internet

Because music often plays an important part in the performance of the liturgy, cathedrals generally have a pipe organ to accompany the choir. Source: Internet

Between 1926 and the end of 1927, Waller recorded a series of pipe organ solo records. Source: Internet

Funds raised at the event went to the friends of the Erben Organ, a nonprofit group, for the future restoration of the church’s 1868 pipe organ, a gracious beast of an instrument larger than many of the area’s tenement apartments. Source: Internet

A pipe organ may have stops that octave pipes above and below each pressed key, a fifth above (the quintet stop), and stops that imitate wind instruments such as horns. Source: Internet

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