Air is pumped through sets, or ranks, of pipes are controlled by keyboards and/or pedals, and stops. The range and variety of organ design makes this a speciialist subject deserving of its own website!


Range

Organ range

Organ music is notated on three staves. The written ranges of the keyboards and the pedals is shown.

Links

Pipe organs and music

Encyclopedia of organ stops

Pipe organs and related topics

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Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 ('Organ symphony') Movement 2: blending with orchestra.

Saint-Saëns same piece, Movement 4, tutti with organ dominating.

Saint-Saëns same piece, Movement 4, tutti with organ blending.

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