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What is the organ?
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A keyboard instrument whose tone is produced by wind flowing through the pipes
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What does the organist produce sound?
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By pressing keys or pedals that are connected to pipes of different lengths and materials
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Air passes through the pipes, producing...
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Tones
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Organ may sustain sounds as long as...
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Keys or pedals are depressed and air is passing through the pipes
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the keyboard of an organ
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Manual
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Stops
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Control the flow of air to the different pipes
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What determines pitch on the organ?
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Length of the pipe
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What might the pipes be made of?
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Wood or metal. Sometimes pure tin or cooper alloy
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What are the two types of pipes:
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Reed and flue pipes
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Reed pipes
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Produce sound via a vibrating brass strip called a reed
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Flue pipes
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Produce sound solely from the vibration of the air column
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What are the majority of organ pipes?
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Flue pipes
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What does reed pipes supply?
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Tone of great variety and brilliance
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What has the organ been called?
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The king of instruments
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Complete set of rows of pipes, one for each note of the organ keyboard
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Rank
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How many keyboards the organ may have?
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Five
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How many keyboards does the organ normally have?
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Two or three
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What else doe the organ have?
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A pedal board that is played by the organist's feet
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Organist control ________ and __________ ________ by adjusting levers, buttons, and stops, by moving from one keyboard to another, and by using the pedal board
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Timbre and volume level
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What is volume as a factor of?
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Wind pressure
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One of the most complex instruments and the oldest keyboard instrument
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Organ
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Who is credited with having invented the first organ?
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Ctesibius, an engineer from Alexandria around 250 BC.
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What did he call it?
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Hydraulos
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Why was it called hydraulos?
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Water was used to control wind pressure
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What has the organ been mostly associated with?
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Church music
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What has the organ also been used as?
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A solo and an orchestral instrument
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What do electronic digital organs resemble?
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The pipe organ, but generate sound electronically
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True or False | Electronic digital organs have become very popular
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True
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Their sound capabilities and construction improve as
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Technology advances
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What has replaced the piano as the instrument of choices in many homes?
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Electronic organ
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What do people enjoy about the electronic organ?
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Ability to add automatic rhythms and harmonies to their music
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What does the electronic organ make it possible to do?
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Make music that is immediately satisfying
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True or False | Ctesibius is credited with having invented the first organ in 1853
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False
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True or False | The three types of organ pipes are reed pipes flue pipes, and rank pipes
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False
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True or False | According to the text, the organ has been called "the king of instruments".
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True
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True or False | The first organ used water to control wind pressure
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True
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True or False | An organ may have as many as five keyboards
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True