Date of Award
12-1973
Document Type
Thesis
Department
Music
First Reader
Professor Frances Scott
Abstract
Largest and most complex of musical instruments, the pipe organ is fundamentally a wind instrument. The average modern grand organ consists not of one organ but of three or more, arranged so that the player can operate them all at once. Each of these organs has its own set of pipes and its own keyboard. The keyboards, called manuals, have a stairlike arrangement but overlap into the playing unit, called the console, and a special pedal keyboard operated by the player's feet is placed on the floor underneath the manuals.
Recommended Citation
DeArmond, Mary, "The Pipe Organ: An Honors Special Study" (1973). Honors Theses. 552.
https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/honors_theses/552