Questions tagged [organ]
A large musical instrument having ranks of tuned pipes sounded by air from a windchest, and played using one or more keyboards and commonly a pedalboard to produce a wide range of timbres. The ranks of pipes are controlled by stops around the keyboards.
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Authorship of Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565
An earlier question mentions the disputed authorship of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565. Several musicologists allege that the work has stylistic elements that are problematic for the ...
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Realistically Replicating Organ Diapason Sounds on a Keyboard
(Bear with me, I'm not much of an organ expert.)
So, I've always loved hearing organs in chruch, but never was interested in actually learning how to play one. So, I was wondering if there would be ...
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Keyboard Expression Pedal Position
I have a keyboard setup using a keyboard, a sustain pedal and an expression pedal. An image of my keyboard stand is below for reference. I am having trouble finding a good position for the expression ...
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How to access the lower manual and pedalboard on setBfree Organ emulator
I installed the organ emulator setBfree on a Debian GNU/Linux System.
I run it with Jack connected to the simple USB MIDI controller keyboard. This is working fairly well to connect to the upper ...
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What does "of the first/second/third/etc. tone" mean in Iberian keyboard music?
For example, "Tiento de 5° tono" - The fifth tone? Mixolydian? I'm not sure about whether "tono" refers to a scale mode because the music is scattered with accidentals that don't seem to follow the ...
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What does Arauxo mean by "primero/segundo/... tono"?
In Francisco Correa de Arauxo's Faculdad Organica, he titles his pieces like "Tiento de primero tono". A complete recording of the Faculdad Organica is here: https://open.spotify.com/album/...
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J.S.Bach's organ tablature notation
Is anyone familiar with some freely available guide explaining in detail how to read Bach's organ tablature notation?
Apparently, Bach was very comfortable in using the tablature notation, ...
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What is distinctive about the Hammond B3 organ?
Reading the credits of a jazz or blues album you might come across a musician who played using a Hammond organ (not just any organ, but a Hammond). I know that the Hammond has a long and storied ...
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What is this dial on the organ in the Berliner Dom?
What is this dial on the organ in the Berliner Dom?
I am guessing that the dial may have something to do with air pressure but why would it be needed and what units do the numbers represent?
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How does a pipe organist deal with latency or delay?
I've seen church setups (choir loft in back) where the organ console is 30 Meters or more away from the pipes. That implies that there would be a minimum of 100 milliseconds from pipe sounds back to ...
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Are there general rules for playing a three-voice organ piece without pedals?
I've been fixing up an old reed organ, and would love to play some of Bach's organ works on it; for example, I've had my eye on the chorale prelude Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (BWV 645).
The ...
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What is the reason for the many manuals on a pipe organ?
Pipe organs may have as many as five "manuals", each of them almost the size of piano keyboard, and if would not be enough may even feature the feet keyboard. And my 88 key piano keyboard already ...
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Numbers at the start of hymn [duplicate]
In my school hymn book I always see numbers and a name at the start of a hymn, eg
Slane 10 11 10 10
Or 'irregular'
What do these mean? Are they indications for the organist?
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Clef for the organ pedals
What type of bass clef is used for the organ pedals: regular bass clef, or 8va bassa?
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composing a piece for pipe organ [closed]
Basically I was asked to write a piece for pipe organ until tomorrow morning. I've played a pipe organ before, so I sort of know how it works, but I don't have an organ I can play on before tomorrow.
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How does Durufle's Prelude and Fugue on the name of ALAIN translate to musical notes?
I love Maurice Durufle's Prelude and Fugue on the name ALAIN, but I don't understand the mapping of the name "A-L-A-I-N" to the musical notes "A-D-A-A-F".
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What's the best method for learning how to play triplets over quavers?
I've always struggled to play pieces where one part is in quavers (or any multiple thereof) and another is in triplets (or any odd number).
I'm going to have to finally conquer it, as I am attempting ...
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How to tune a Roman water-organ (hydraulis)?
I am trying to reconstruct the tuning of the Roman water-organ (hydraulis) of Aquincum. The original instrument had 13 pipes for each of the 4 registers (three stopped pipe registers and one open pipe ...
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Is there a noticeable difference in sound quality between a mechanical pipe organ and an electronic one?
What I'm trying to get a feeling for is how well an electronic organ can mimic the sound of a pipe organ. I know there are very advanced electronic organs where every single note for every stop is ...
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Why don't we see jazz music played on the church organ?
I'm just curious as to what about let's say a saxophone makes it very well suited to jazz music and what about the church organ makes it unsuitable for jazz music.
Is there something innate to the ...
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What is the point of notes lower than human hearing
(Scientific pitch notation)
For example:
Organs can go down to C-1
Hyperbass Flute goes down to C0
And these notes have neglegible overtones on these instruments!
Do they modulate other notes?
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What does "super" in title of organ pieces mean?
Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a couple of Trio Supers and Fantasia Supers, e.g.:
Trio super 'Herr Jesu Christ dich zu uns wend', BWV 655
Trio super 'Nun komm der Heiden Heiland', BWV 660 (Bach, Johann ...
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Is there such a thing as a portable chord organ?
I have recently been playing an inherited Chord Organ, with a full set of chord buttons for the left hand and the piano keys for the right hand, however it is not very portable, has a portable version ...
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What to play on a Pump Organ
i have an old pump organ and want to learn playing it a bit. I hope that is the correct english word for it, it looks like the one on the WIki picture here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_organ
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Unknown Ornament Notation - Three horizontal short lines
This nonation appears on Partite diverse sopra l'Aria 'Schweiget mir von Weiber nehmen' by Reincken, Johann Adam, IMSLP #04945.
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Why don't pipe organs have diaphragm stops?
Why don't pipe organs have stops operating by disk-shaped diaphragms like this?
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When combining a mechanical and digital manual into a single organ, how would you handle the difference in delay?
When I combine 2 organ manuals, a mechanical and an electronical one into a single instrument, how would you setup the delay from the position of the organ player?
Let's assume the mechanical manual ...
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How can I make my keyboard sound like a Hammond organ?
I have a keyboard. It can play the basic MIDI sounds. I would like it to have a Hammond organ sound. Since I'm not sure if I can upload new sounds to its MIDI bank, I'm looking for a way to 'effect' ...
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Service Manual For Rodgers 770 [closed]
TLDR: Where can I find the service manual for the Rodgers Exeter 770 pipe organ?
I am trying to repair a Rodgers Exeter 770 digital pipe organ, however, I do not have the service manual. I easily ...
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How can I make my hammond chord organ sound like a keyboard or piano?
I have a Hammond organ and really want to play invisibly shaken by Rodney Atkins and can't seem to find the right tone. In the song the music sounds like it is coming from a keyboard or piano. How can ...
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How to deal with the extreme reverberation in big cathedrals when playing the pipe organs?
While playing the pipe organs in cathedrals or churches with huge echo/reverberation, I noticed that along with the delay/latency (when the pipes are not close enough to the ears) comes the second ...
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Can i switch to the original tone after the repeated part is over?
There is a repeated part in a song I'm playing, where I'm supposed to change the voices. It stays organ, but a different type both the times.
The thing is that after the repetition is over, the ...
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what do IV or a I or a III with a 3 or 5 above it mean?
I am a professional organist who has been self -teaching improvisation from an organ improvisation textbook by Marcel Dupre, titled "Complete Course in Organ Improvisation, volume 1."
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Choosing instrument played by midi pedalboard connected to keyboard
I got a 30 note pedalboard (with a 5-pin midi connector) that I want to use with my two keyboards (Yamaha P-155 and Kaway CA13) to play simultaneously on all three. The problem is that when I connect ...
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What are the practical uses, what are the techniques that can be invented, for a pitch bender on a combo organ?
Look at this pedal's effects. I'm getting it to use with a combo organ; its delays, rotary simulator, chorus, drive, ring modulator, and reverbs are certainly all useful for an organ, as well as the ...
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How do tonewheel organs sound coherent?
So there are notes that the key nominally doesn't play in an organ note if the drawbars are pulled out. Yet if I pull all the drawbars out and play a chord, it sounds like a coherent chord. A C minor ...
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Difference between notes and recoding of performed BWV anhang 122
During the past weeks I've been studying BWV anhang 122, the march in D major. Sheet music can be found here.
I'm more or less able to perform the piece, though not yet at the tempo indicated by the ...
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Mapping MIDI controllers to Hammond B3 plugin
What are the basic controls that a Hammond B3 virtual instrument plugin would have that are usually assigned to controls on a MIDI controller keyboard?
And then it is right to assign the Leslie ...
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What do shorter-than-thirty-two-note MIDI pedalboards bar you from playing?
There have been questions before about what utility can be derived from a two-octave keyboard in terms of learning any keyboard idioms. Well, two five-octave MIDI controllers and a volume pedal seem ...
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Proper organ glissando technique?
I am playing an organ patch on an electric keyboard with a low-ish trigger point, so I have to depress the key fairly deeply to be able to trigger sound. Generally, I am finding it hard to get quick, ...
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Can you/how would you hook up a vintage chord organ to an amp?
I want to make a 1/4" jack a permanent feature on an old chord organ (there's tons on Facebook Marketplace). Other than buying those mikes that you use to electrify acoustic instruments, how would I, ...
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Why don't organs have weighted keys?
An organ (especially a pipe organ in a church) is the most expensive instrument in the world, I saw some even cost in the millions of dollars. I've read a lot of mixed things about weighted/unweighted ...
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Strange Ornamental Symbol on Bach Piece
This is from the marvelous andante from Bach’s organ trio sonata BWV 528. What does this symbol mean on the stave of the second keyboard? I am assuming it is ornamental. Is it just a strange version ...
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How to learn to play the pipe organ?
I have been playing piano for about 13 years now. I want to go to the next level: playing church pipe organs.
A few weeks ago, my dream to play a church pipe organ became true, after a Catholic mass ...
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Could the organ I’m selling be a fire hazard?
I have an '80s electronic organ and have agreed to sell it come the end of this week. I dropped something inside it this morning and tried to take it out and noted that the organ is incredibly dusty ...
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What does a long arrow pointing up and down mean in an organ score?
What is the meaning of this symbol (long vertical arrow) in old organ notation?
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Simple Christmas songs for a meantone organ [closed]
Many seasonal songs were written using meantone. What is it that makes them specifically sound that way?
Whereas in 12tet they sound very different?
Examples will help the understanding. Simple ...
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Slurred half circle symbol
As an organist-amateur I recently bought "An Easy Bach Organ Album". In BWV 691 there's a symbol which looks like a half of a circle, or a small letter c. Moreover, the symbol is connected with the ...
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How to improvise on organ
I feel quite comfortable doing piano improvisations, but I am very limited when talking about the organ improvisations.
Specifically, talking about the left hand, on the piano I can do the specific ...
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What does "vox humana" mean in Organ building?
Reading a thesis about temperature in Organ construction I encountered this term and I didn't know anything about it before.
So I wonder what you can tell us about "vox humana".
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