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What is arank on a pipe organ?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Simply put, a set of pipes. There can be as few as 12 and as many as 97. In "straight organs" the number of pipes corresponds to the number of keys but sometimes 12 pipes are added to the top end for an octave coupler. "unit organs will have extended ranks that can be played at different pitch levels, thus one will see 73, 85 and 97 pipe ranks. "Short ranks" are those of limited compass or those which repeat over the full compass of the keyboard.

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13y ago

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