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PIPE ORGAN [10 records]

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Record 1 2024-04-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Keyboard Instruments
  • Wind Instruments
DEF

A small, easily portable pipe organ usually having only a single set, or rank, of reed pipes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à clavier
  • Instruments de musique à vent
DEF

[...] petit orgue à un seul jeu, muni d'anches battantes et de soufflets [...]

OBS

régale : désignation dont le genre peut être masculin ou féminin.

Spanish

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Record 2 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

pipe organ : an item in the "Musical Tools and Equipment" class of the "Tools and Equipment for Communication" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

grand orgue : objet de la classe «Outils et équipement de musique» de la catégorie «Outillage et équipement pour la communication».

Spanish

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Record 3 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

organ pipe : an item in the "Musical Tools and Equipment" class of the "Tools and Equipment for Communication" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

tuyau d'orgue : objet de la classe «Outils et équipement de musique» de la catégorie «Outillage et équipement pour la communication».

Spanish

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Record 4 2010-07-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wind Instruments
DEF

A mechanical pipe organ operated by a rotary handle, which both works the bellows to supply air, and turns a pinned cylinder which, as it is turned, raises keys which cause the sounding of the appropriate pipes.

OBS

hurdy-gurdy: This term is preferably used to designate a wheel fiddle, which is a lute-like instrument also actuated by a handle.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à vent
DEF

Instrument mobile dont on joue au moyen d'une manivelle qui actionne le soufflet et fait tourner un cyclindre noté réglant l'admission de l'air dans les tuyaux.

Spanish

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Record 5 1993-11-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Keyboard Instruments
  • Audio Technology
  • Acoustics (Physics)
CONT

Many of the pipes in a good organ work in an entirely different way.... Hidden inside the pipe foot is a metal reed, usually made of brass. The tuning wire is springy and holds part of the reed firmly against the open side of the air channel called the shallot, leaving enough free to have the desired vibration frequency.

CONT

the shallot ... is roughly cylindrical in shape with its lower end closed and the upper end open.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à clavier
  • Électroacoustique
  • Acoustique (Physique)
CONT

Dans les instruments, il faut, bien entendu, fixer [l']anche quelque part. Dans l'orgue, on l'adapte sur la rigole [...] Pour l'accorder, on fait glisser un fil de fer, la rasette qui appuie sur l'anche et raccourcit ou allonge la partie vibrante, ce qui fait monter ou baisser le son.

Spanish

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Record 6 1992-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Keyboard Instruments
DEF

an organ pipe whose tone is produced by an air current striking the lip and causing the air within to vibrate.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à clavier
DEF

Tuyau d'orgue dans lesquels le son est produit par jet d'air qui se brise sur une lèvre rigide taillée en biseau (Grand Dictionnaire Encyclopédique).

Spanish

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Record 7 1985-09-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wind Instruments
DEF

organ stop of flue pipes ...

OBS

... used esp. in names of various labial wood pipe organ stops(tibia clausa)(tibia plena)...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à vent
DEF

jeux d'orgue à bouche, ouverts ou bouchés (bourdon; flûtes; (...]

Key term(s)
  • flûtes

Spanish

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Record 8 1985-09-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wind Instruments
DEF

organ stop of flue pipes ...

OBS

... used esp. in names of various labial wood pipe organ stops(tibia clausa)(tibia plena)...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à vent
OBS

Différents jeux d'orgue (flûtes) portent ce nom : t. aperta, t. silvestris, t. clausa, t. angusta; (...)

Spanish

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Record 9 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Keyboard Instruments
  • String Instruments
OBS

D. a coupling mechanism in the pipe organ to make a manual stop sound when the pedals are played.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à clavier
  • Instruments de musique à cordes
OBS

D.combinaison de leviers qui permettent d'accoupler le pédalier aux claviers manuels, ou bien les claviers manuels entre eux

Spanish

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Record 10 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Keyboard Instruments
DEF

Ornamental organ pipe that produces no sound.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à clavier
DEF

Tuyau apparent d'un orgue, qui cache les tuyaux où se produisent réellement les sons.

Spanish

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