Key facts
- Classification
- Aerophone ( pipe and reed organs ) Electrophone ( electronic and electromechanical organs )
- Inventor
- Ctesibius
- Developed
- 3rd century BC
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Carol Williams performing at the United States Military Academy West Point Cadet Chapel.
In music, the organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means (generally woodwind or electric) for producing tones. The organs have usually two or three, sometimes up to five or more, manuals for playing with the hands and a pedalboard for playing with the feet. With the use of registers, several groups of pipes can be connected to one manual.
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