List Of Pipe Organ Stops
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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; each can be "on" (admitting the passage of a ...
can be one of three things: *the control on an organ console that selects a particular sound *the row of organ pipes used to create a particular sound, more appropriately known as a ''rank'' *the sound itself Organ stops are sorted into four major types: principal, string, reed, and
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. This is a sortable list of names that may be found associated with electronic and
pipe organ The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called ''wind'') through the organ pipes selected from a Musical keyboard, keyboard. Because each pipe produces a single tone and pitch, the pipes are provide ...
stops. Countless stops have been designed over the centuries, and individual organs may have stops, or names of stops, used nowhere else. This non-comprehensive list deals mainly with names of stops found on numerous
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, classical and romantic organs. Here are a few of the most common ones:


See also

* Abbatial church of Notre-Dame de Mouzon * Eight-foot pitch


References


External links

* * a French organ builder's site in sometimes puzzling English. * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pipe Organ Stops * Music-related lists Musical terminology