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
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.
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
Organ stop
…An organ stop is a component of a pipe organ that admits pressurized air (known as wind) to a set of organ pipes. Its name comes from the fact that stops can be used selectively by the organist…
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.