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organ

Musical keyboard instrument

Instance of: type of musical instrument
Subclass of: keyboard instrument
, building component

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In music, the organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means for producing tones. The organs have usually two or three, sometimes up to five or more, manuals for playing with the hands and a pedalboard for playing with the feet. With the use of registers, several groups of pipes can be connected to one manual.

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Used by: organist
Studied by: organology
Members / parts: organ case
organ pipe
musical keyboard
pedal keyboard
organ stop
organ console
swell
windchest
Practiced by: organ expert
Has use: classical music
music tradition
Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 421.222.11
Model item: pipe organ applies to use with property: subclass of
Different from: Organ criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of object: organ

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AIDB. (2026). organ (Q1444). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/organ-Q1444