Organ building
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Organ building is the profession of designing, building, restoring and maintaining pipe organs.
Design for an organ by Johann Georg Dirr, 18th century
German organ builder pre-voicing pipes, 1966
German organ builder constructing an organ, 1966
Modern organ in Basilica of St. Andoche, Saulieu, France
Organ stop
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An organ stop is a component of a pipe organ that admits pressurized air to a set of organ pipes. Its name comes from the fact that stops can be used selectively by the organist; each can be "on", or
Organ building
…building, restoring and maintaining pipe organs. The organ builder usually receives a commission to design an organ with a particular disposition of stops, manuals, and actions, creates a design to best respond to spatial, technical and acoustic considerations, and then constructs the instrument. The…
The choir division of the organ at St. Raphael's Cathedral, Dubuque, Iowa. Shown here are several ranks of pipes, each of which would be controlled from one of the stops on the console.
The organ at the Naval Academy Chapel has 522 stops.