Peaceful music
Organ music played on
a Johannus Orgelbouw
Opus 37 digital pipe organ
Peaceful music
Organ music played on
a Johannus Orgelbouw
Opus 37 digital pipe organ
Walk with me a moment.
So, what is a pipe organ?
There are many excellent resources out there offering answers to that question in minute detail. The short of it: a pipe organ is a wind instrument controlled by one or more keyboards played with the hands and a pedalboard played with the feet. The console and keyboards (61 notes each) and pedalboard (32 notes on most contemporary organs) control the ranks (a rank is a grouping of one pipe for each note on a keyboard) of pipework by turning each rank on or off and by signaling a valve (depressing a key on the keyboard or pedalboard sends this signal) installed under each pipe that it's time to open and admit pressurized air (from the windchest on which the ranks of pipes are seated) to the base of the pipe to make sound, or by releasing the key on the keyboard or pedalboard to close, thereby cutting off the air to the pipe and stopping the sound. Easy peasy. Not! It is the most complicated instrument ever invented!
