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=** //The Pipe Organ// **=

__**﻿Contents**__ 1) About The Pipe Organ

2)When Was The Pipe Organ Made

3) What Are Organ Pipes Made From?

4)Metal Pipes

5)Wood Organ Pipes

6)Types Of Organs

7)Chamber Organs

8)Theatre Organs

9)Reed Organs

10)Bibliography

__**About The Pipe Organ**__

The pipe organ is an important member of the woodwind family. It produces its sound by the person driving pressurized air through the pipe selected by the keyboard. Every pipe has its own single pitch. The pipes are provided in sets called 'ranks'. Most organs have multiple pipes of differing timbre.The player can employ the length and loudness of the note by using the keyboard at the front of the organ and the pedalboard played by the feet.The player can employ the length and loudness of the note by using the keyboard at the front of the organ and the pedalboard played by the feet. A pipe organ can have one or several keyboards (called manuals). The organ has a continous supply of wind which allows the note to be sustained for as long as the player wants it to be.

__**When Was The Pipe Organ Made**__

The pipe organ was first created at around 300BC, in which the wind supply was created by water pressure. By the year 600AD, bellows were used to supply organs with wind. In the twelfth century, the organ began to evolve into a complex instrument. By 1700AD most of the sounds on the modern organ were developed.


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Pipe Organs are usually installed in churches, synagogues, concert halls and other public buildings. The pipe organ is mostly used to play classical, sacred music.


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__**What Are Organ Pipes Made From?**__

Organ pipes are generally made out of either metal or wood. Very rarely glass, porcelain, plastic, paper, or even stone pipes may be seen. A historical organ in the Philippines has pipes made exclusively of bamboo.

__** Metal Organs Pipes **__

Metal pipes are mostly made of a mixture of lead and tin. Sometimes little amounts of copper can be included. They change the mixture to suit on how they wanted it to sound. The more lead used in the alloy, the darker the sound will be. The more tin thats used, the brighter the sound. Pipes have been made of many metals including copper,aluminum, gold electroplate, silver, brass and iron.


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__**Wood Organ Pipes**__

Wooden pipes are made of either coniferous wood or hardwood. People who create the pipes on the organ screw and glue the pipe and assemble them in various shapes and sizes. The cross-section of a wooden pipe is almost always a square or rectangle.
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__**Types Of Pipe Organ**__ There are many different types of pipe organs. Some of them are:

**Chamber Organs**

A chamber organ is a small pipe organ, it often has one manual and sometimes it doesn't have separate pedal pipes. It is often confined to chamber organ repertoire. The sound and touch are unique on the instrument. It sounds nothing like a large organ with few stops drawn out, but rather much more intimate.

**Theatre Organ** The theatre organ or cinema organ was designed accompany silent movies. It is made to replace an orchestra. However, it includes many more gadgets, such as percussion and special effects. Theatre organs tend not to take nearly as much space as standard organs, relying on etension and higher wind pressures to produce a greater variety of tone and larger volume of sound from fewer pipes.

**Reed Organ**

The reed organ and harmonium, was the other main type of organ before the development of electronic organs. It generates its sounds using reeds similar to those of a piano accordion. Smaller, cheaper and more portable than the corresponding pipe instrument, these were widely used in smaller churches and in private homes, but their volume and tonal range was extremely limited and they were generally limited to one or two manuals. It was extremely rare for a reed organ to have pedalboards.

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This video is a video of one of the world's largest pipe organs

__**Bibliography**__

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