En chamade
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En chamade refers to powerfully voiced reed stops in a pipe organ that have been mounted horizontally, rather than vertically, in the front of the organ case, projecting out into the church or concert
The double-faceted baroque organ of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. Notice the en chamade pipes (trumpets) protruding outwards from its lower part.
Pipe organ
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The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard. Because each pipe produces a single tone and pitch, the pipes ar
En chamade
…En chamade (French: "to sound a parley") refers to powerfully voiced reed stops in a pipe organ that have been mounted horizontally, rather than vertically, in the front of the organ case, projecting out into the church or concert hall. They produce…
Pipe organ in the collegiate church of St. Michael in Neunkirchen am Brand
Hydraulis from the 1st century BC, oldest organ found to date, Museum of Dion, Greece
4th-century AD "Mosaic of the Female Musicians" from a Byzantine villa in Maryamin, Syria.
9th-century image of an organ, from the Utrecht Psalter.