Classical music pieces are also written for pipe organs.

In churches, the pipe organs were used to play music written to accompany the liturgy. Pipe organs and water organ instruments were first used to play patriotic music for sporting events. What types of music can be played on an organ? They create an electric current that passes through a rotating metal bar. It uses electronics and loudspeakers in order to produce notes like a piano.

Electronic: In the 1930s, the Hammond organ was invented.

They are housed in a frame that looks like a piano, and they are often used in small buildings and structures where larger pipe organs would not fit.

They use air that moves past free metal strips or reeds in order to make the sound.

Reed: Reed organs generate sounds like a piano.

The pipes are divided into sections and can range in size from a few feet in length to more than five stories tall. A combination of hands stops and mechanical pistons control the opening and closing of the pipes.

Pipe: The pipe organ uses air moving through different sizes and thicknesses of pipes in order to produce sound waves.

Some of these electronic effects are controlled by the pedals.

Electronic and digital functions: Modern musical instruments have digital functions added to the keyboard panel that allows for mixing of beats, the addition of other instrumental sounds, or enhanced tonal effects such as what a piano provides.

The smallest of these organs can be outfitted with a strap to wear around the shoulders and back, allowing you to walk or march while playing it.

Portable: Small keyboards can be built in a way that makes them portable.

Slowly opening the shutters allows a crescendo to build or descend. The player can open the shutters to increase the loudness from the swell box to the performance hall. The swell box consists of a box made of wood with a large opening that has movable shades or shutters.

Swell boxes: Church organs typically have a swell box.

Music organs continue to be popular instruments in sporting events and liturgical performances. The music organ consists of one or more sets of pipes, each of which has their own keyboard for making notes. Organs have been used since ancient times, beginning with Ctesibius of Alexandria who invented a water organ that was used in Greek sporting events.

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