Pipe organs are simply amazing instruments. They have been around since the Middle Ages, but the type of music performed on them has changed a lot between then and now. Originally, they simply created loud noises - maybe to scare away ghosts? - but now, while they still create loud noises, the music and sound is widely recognised as specific to the organ.
An organ consists of three primary parts:
1) The wind generation system (usually done nowadays by an electric motor) which is connected to a set of bellows which store the air, maintaining pressure in the wind chests, ready to make its way into the pipes,
2) The console which is usually consists of multiple keyboards and a pedal keyboard connected in a variety of ways (common actions are: tracker/mechanical, electric, pneumatic) to the pipes,
3) The organ pipes which sit in different locations (divisions) within the organ, depending on things like: whether the organist might want to adjust their volume; whether they are loud pipes for fanfares; whether they are accompanying other instruments.
An organ consists of three primary parts:
1) The wind generation system (usually done nowadays by an electric motor) which is connected to a set of bellows which store the air, maintaining pressure in the wind chests, ready to make its way into the pipes,
2) The console which is usually consists of multiple keyboards and a pedal keyboard connected in a variety of ways (common actions are: tracker/mechanical, electric, pneumatic) to the pipes,
3) The organ pipes which sit in different locations (divisions) within the organ, depending on things like: whether the organist might want to adjust their volume; whether they are loud pipes for fanfares; whether they are accompanying other instruments.
