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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How can I determine which chord to play?
I've sang in choir for 50 years, played Trombone in high school, and am a Church Choir Director. I can read music (both clefs).
I mostly play hymns on keyboard/organ. I can play both right hand ...
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What was the purpose of Jean Adam Guilain's Organ Suites?
I'm looking for context for these pieces, as I am about to play the Suite of the Second Tone in recital. Guilain wrote these Suites, and whenever I hear recordings of them, each movement begins with a ...
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How to practice organ at home?
Finding a real organ to practice can be cumbersome: it can be located quite far from your home and not always be available. Are there alternatives that allow one to practice at home (especially the ...
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Why do some organs have multiple keyboards? [duplicate]
I've seen very different organs: pipe organs, bubble organs, electric organs, steam organs and etc.
Why do some have one keyboard while others have two-three or even more?
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Notating manuals and pedal on a pipe organ
What is the easiest way to notate an original piece for pipe organ (two manual) and pedal? I would like to have:
The left hand play a tonal chord on the Great Manual
The right hand play a melody on ...
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Organ for a Beginner
I am a seven year pianist player, and after some thought, I have been considering playing electric organ (for the sole reason that they sound epic with the amount of instruments they play).
I have ...
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Which Bach chorale preludes are appropriate for different times of the liturgical year?
Is there a guide available that assigns all of Bach's organ chorale preludes to appropriate times in the liturgical year?
Bach himself began such a catalog in the Orgelbüchlein. That's the sort of ...
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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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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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How to get these organ sounds
I'm a guitarist and keyboardist and try to do everything on my own when it comes to recording my music.
I'm a big fan of organs, however, there are some sounds I've never been able to achieve.
Two ...
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How to denote changing of pipe organ stops during performance?
I'm in the midst of writing a piece which has an organ part which may require stop changes during the performance, possibly mid-note (with the resultant tonal shifts). Searching the web I've tried to ...
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Varying touches in Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
I notice that in playing the beginning of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, some organists make an abrupt marcato release of the keys, clipping the notes, but others play the notes in a normal full ...
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Is real organ music playable with digital piano?
Is it possible to learn and play some classic organ music like J.S. Bach_ Toccata & Fuga on a 88 key digital piano, after switching the sound generator into "organ" mode? There is only one manual, ...
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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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Is there a name for "slapping" a hammond organ?
Just wondering if there was a technical name for the keyboard "slap" technique found here at around 4:00ish:
Thanks!
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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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What does the "+" symbol mean in a keyboard piece when attached to a note?
In a Daquin pipe organ piece, "Noël «Suisse»" from his "Livre de Noëls", I see this notation in the Right Hand system:
This is notated this way in the Oxford Book of Christmas Organ Music. How should ...
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What does Grt. and Sw. mean in this organ score?
I've come across a piece of sheet music for an organ and I was just curious what the Grt. marking above measure 1 and 17 means and what the Sw. marking above measure 9 means. I've seen it before in a ...
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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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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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Practicing pedalling without pedals, or maximizing real practice efficiency
I only get about an hour-and-a-half's access per week to practice on a 'real' organ.
Needless to say, my progress at pedalling is painfully slow.
Are there any ways to practice pedalling without ...
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Lateral alignment of pedalboard to keyboards
How should an organ's (61-key) manuals align with its pedalboard, left to right?
Symmetrically?
By centering a D from the manual on the middle D pedal?
Neither the AGO nor the British online ...
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Linking organ pedals to a keyboard
Having 'rescued' the bass pedals from an old organ, I wish to use them as add-ons to my keyboards, when the bassist can't make it.What is a simple way to connect them so that they work through the ...
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Are instructions on organ stop settings included in the notation of Baroque organ music?
I am currently listening to a collection of Bach's complete organ works for the organ. I love Baroque music and Bach in particular, but I am not very familiar with the organ from the performer's ...
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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 write a keyboard part for an existing song?
I was asked to make a keyboard part for a song somebody else has written. It's probably going to be organ.
I have no idea how to do this. I've been playing for a few years and I can improvise a bit, ...
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Assign a volume pedal to a DSP on a Psr keyboard?
I have a yamaha Psr-2100, and a volume pedal (yamaha fc7). I was hoping I could assign my pedal to affect a certain parameter of an effect that is applied on a voice, for example distortion or vibrato....
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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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Organ technique for pianists
I've been playing the piano for 15-odd years, so I like to delude myself into thinking that I'm somewhat skilled. However, my question revolves around the organ. I've played the organ for 5-odd ...
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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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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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