Pipe Organ

They are not considered to be the same, though both are close relatives of the piano. A keyboard typically produces sound via an electronic speaker, while an organ produces sound by mechanically moving air through pipes. An organ also has foot pedals to play low notes, which keyboards lack. The organ is usually the much larger instrument of the two.

The lowest note is the G above middle C, and the highest is the A nine notes above that.

This question is too vague. There are thousands and thousands of pipe organs world wide. The first pipe organ? No one knows. The history of the organ goes back to at least 300 BCE and probably much earlier.

The organ I play at an Episcopal (Anglican) church has 2,900 pipes, which is actually just about medium-sized (if there is such a measurement). The smaller theater organs I've played have about 1,000. The smaller church organ down the street has about 2,000.

Technically it is a wind instrument. The pipe organ has often been referred to as "The King of Instruments". It's in a class all by itself ... It was never intended to replace the orchestra or sound like an orchestra, although it contains orchestral like sounding voices.

Sound is produced by pressing a key which opens a valve below the pipes and lets the pressurized air travel upwards through the pipe. Once the key is released, the valve closes and the sound ceases.

It is believed one former operatic singer Fritzi Scheff ( a woman) began this custom for the Brooklyn Dodgers pre-war II. I do not have any further details.

One of the characteristics of the theater organ is the tremulant. Also, whilst the prevalent stop on a church pipe organ is the Diapason or Principal, on the theater organ it is the Tibia Clausa, a pure flute tone. Theater organs also have stops not commonly found on church organs such as the Kinura and Post Horn. The strings are usually quite a bit keener and louder as well as typified by the typical Wurlitzer Viol de Orchestra. One commonality is the Vox Humana. However the voicing of theater organs is usually quite different than church organs, particularly if the church organ in question was built after the Organ Reform Movement. A Church organ built during the romantic or orchestral period may make a fairly good imitation of a theater organ simply by turning on the tremulants. However the tremulants of theater organs are usually quite a bit faster and deeper than church organ tremulants. The best bet is to make maximum use of the strings, trems and reeds. Do not be afraid to use the mutations as well. Don't forget that theater organs were highly unified so that many stops played at every conceivable pitch.

Passau Cathedral

The Kilgen (correct spelling) organ company went out of business in 1960.

If you Google "Kilgen" you can find a Wikipedia article, an opus list and a lot of other information, but no Kilgen company website.

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Short answer: No. Handel played the harpsichord, a predecessor of the piano, and also the organ.

Longer answer (Did Handel ever play a piano, even once?): Not that we know of, but it's possible. Contemporary music historian Charles Burney said that pianos did not arrive in England before the mid-1750s, and Handel had pretty much retired from performing by 1753; but he visited the Continent in 1750-1751, where pianos had been around for a few years. Johann Sebastian Bach, for example, is known to have tried one out before his death in 1750. I can't imagine Handel passed up the opportunity, if he had it!

Pipe organ has the most harmonics.

Unknown. More likely it was developed from the syrinx and there was no one, single inventor. It is known that primitive pipe organs were being constructed well before 300 BCE. Ctesibius, a Greek engineer, invented a wind pressure stabilization device using water - the hydraulus - in approx. 265 BCE.

Typically it has two tiers of keys like those on a piano and has a bunch of controls that you can use to make different sounds with the organ. If you're using an electric organ you'll have buttons and "draw bars", where as on a pipe organ you'll have levers and knobs.

Historic Mexican organs were built in the Spanish style. If this does not answer your question, you need to re-phrase it.

The largest organ in the world, based on number of pipes, is located in Boardwalk Hall (formerly known as the Atlantic City Convention Hall) in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It was built from 1929 till 1932. It cost approximately $500,000 and was built at the height of the Great Depression. The effort nearly bankrupted the Midmer-Losh organ firm, which led to decades of debate as to whether it was actually completed. Recent evidence suggests it was.

It has over 33,000 pipes and over 1000 stops. The average church organ has around 1,000 pipes and 10- 30 stops. It is also the Largest and loudest musical instrument constructed. It is the only organ in the world to have pipes on 100" wind pressure. Most organs use 3" - 8" wind pressure. It is also has the worlds largest organ pipe, the 64ft Diaphone.

The organ's website is www.acchos.org

The Convention Hall organ in Atlantic City is not only the largest pipe organ, but also the largest musical instrument ever constructed. Unfortunately, it is no longer operational.

The largest operational pipe organ (28,522 pipes) is the Wanamaker Organ in the Macy's Center City Department Store in Philadelphia, PA. This organ has the most number of ranks or sets of pipes in the world.

There is no short answer to this. Entire books have been written on the subject. The Wikipedia article on Pipe Organ has a section on Baroque and Renaissance organs.

You can find grants for repairing a pipe organ in a church through various sources, including local and national arts organizations, historical preservation societies, and foundations that support religious institutions. Websites like the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the American Guild of Organists often list funding opportunities. Additionally, consider reaching out to local community foundations or exploring government grants designated for arts and culture projects. Lastly, networking with other churches that have undertaken similar repairs may yield valuable leads on funding sources.

That depends. If you consider percussion instruments and keyboard instruments to be seperate groups, then the pipe organ belongs in the keyboard group. If you consider percussion and keyboard instruments to be the same group, then the pipe organ is a percussion instrument.

It's worth noting that the pipe organ is also technically a woodwind instrument, because the sounds come from wind passing through its pipes.

Pitch. Longer = lower

(a) 1.2r (b) 0.9r (c) 0.6r (d) 0.3r

One may purchase a small, used pipe organ for under $10,000 (American). However, new pipe organs cost at least $10,000 per rank average. A typical, medium sized church organ will have between 12 and 20 ranks.