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pipe organ

Word definitions for pipe organ in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air (called wind ) through organ pipes selected via a keyboard . Because each pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks , each of which has ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ In a pipe organ of quality each pipe is a carefully-designed and individually-voiced musical instrument which produces only one frequency of sound. ▪ It had a pipe organ installed in 1924 which cost £400. ▪ With regard to second-hand ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The largest of all musical instruments, played from an organ console which produces its sound by sending air through whistles and/or reeds called organ pipes, by direct mechanical action, or modernly, electrically.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard [syn: organ ]

Usage examples of pipe organ.

The famous pipe organ, imported from London, melted into lumps of useless metal, and stained-glass windows crashed into the fire.

Then they rounded a corner and there, half-way up the big room they saw a shimmering blob of misty blue light where the ruined pipe organ stood.

Oubliette was sucking on the mouth-organ and clenching her sphincter on the anus-organ and performing her patented peristalsis on the center pipe organ.

The organ, which was Endor's, the same neon pipe organ Billy had seen in the hobby room, was set on an outcropping of rock in a far corner.

Verplanck waved from the end of the float as the Streamline quickly shot out into the night, a buzzing, throbbing shape of mahogany and brass, with her exhausts sticking out like funnels and booming like a pipe organ.

There was a small chapel with a pipe organ, a simple altar and a high stained-glass window that showed Christ surrounded by small, golden-haired children.

The huge pipe organ you see up there on the balcony played at the two weddings of King Matthias.

Someone was playing some mighty mournful music on the pipe organ, but I couldn't see who it was.

Indeed the wind played the structure now and then as if it were a great pipe organ, and when Sybelle was not at her piano it was to this music I listened, shutting out the rich cacophony of the city above, beyond and below.

The chaos of Babel finally resolved into a single wordless tone, like the quietest note that could possibly be played on the universe's largest pipe organ.