| Interesting and amuzing pipe organ stops, unique, non-traditional organs and organ-like structures |
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| Atalanta Fugiens Portative Organ - A Hagiographical Reed Organ by artist Cynthia Large |
| Bible-Regal - The Bible-Regal is probably one of the smallest organs ever built. |
| Bruder Fairground Organ - One of the finest playing Gebrüder Bruder Waldkirch Germany fairground organs. This superbe instrument was made in the 1920's with the new paper roll system which replaced the cardboard music. To read the music this organ uses a vacuum system called Aerophone and to play the pressure air system...'Karusselorgel Modell 107', includes pictures and specification |
| Friday Night Organ Pump - The Friday Night Organ Pump is a monthly concert put on by organ students at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. The Organ Pump happens in Finney Chapel at Midnight. All sorts of organ music is performed on Oberlin's new French Romantic instrument, Fisk Opus 116. |
| Julian Rhodes' Esoteric Organs page - From the website of Julian Rhodes, essays on organ symbolism and philosophy, its relation to the elements, and other esoterica |
| La Musique du Vent - French-language site with instructions on building various Aeolian instruments |
| Large Hot Pipe Organ - The Large Hot Pipe Organ is the world's only MIDI controlled, propane powered explosion organ. The LHPO's pyro-acoustic explodo-rhythmations will throbbatize your earholes and dance-ify your booty and make you realize what 'Industrial Music' REALLY means! |
| Le Ludion Fair Organs / Band Organs - ALL our instruments are really flutes organs with bellows and air pressure. They are hand-made by the best art-craftmen. You'll be proud to transfer them to next generations. Be kind not to mistake them with electronic replicas. |
| Mocean - Mocean is an immersive environment that explores the potential of water as an emotive interface for public spaces and installations. A very interesting installation involving water, light and organ pipes. |
| Organ Pipe Cactus - A distinctive cactus that lives in the Sonoran Desert and Arizona |
| Organ Stop: Cuckoo - A 'toy' stop which imitates the call of the cuckoo bird using two pipes pitched a major or minor third apart and blown successively. Read more... |
| Organ Stop: Fuchsschwanz - One of the strange accessories sometimes found in old German organs. A stop-knob bearing the inscription 'Noli me tangere' ('Do not touch') was attached to the console. Read more... |
| Organ Stop: Paukerengel - A stop found in a few old German organs, actuated by a pedal, which caused one or more angels, mounted in the organ case, to beat drums. Read more... |
| Organ Stop: Vox Inaudita - A facetious pleasantry indulged in by some mediaeval organ builders. Read more... |
| Organ Stop: Vox Vinolata - (Lat.) Vinolentus = drunken. (Vinolata is very bad Latin). Read more... |
| Peterson Beer Bottle Organ - Take One Down and pass it around, but here are Seventy-Four Bottles of Beer that Peterson won't let go Flat! |
| San Francisco's unique Wave Organ - The Wave Organ is a unique artifact, part musical instrument, part environmental sculpture. It's an organ the way windchimes are chimes, and the way an aeolian harp is a harp, because it's not an organ to be played by human hands and feet, but by San Francisco Bay itself. It's also evidently a good spot for fishing and crabbing. |
| Shaker Chimes - A description of the Shaker Chimes, or Triple Octave Chimes, a rare musical instrument |
| Stalacpipe Organ - Located deep in the Luray Caverns in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley is the Great Stalacpipe Organ, the world's largest musical instrument. Stalactites covering 3 1/2 acres of the surrounding caverns produce tones of symphonic quality when electronically tapped by rubber-tipped mallets. |
| The Busker Organ Music Web Site - This site caters for most hand-turned busker organs, street organs, monkey organs, etc. If you are looking for music rolls, cardboard books, chips, or music cartridges for your busker or street organ, you will probably find them on this site. |
| The Las Piñas Bamboo Organ - The only extant pipe organ with pipes made of bamboo |
| The Musical Box Society International - The Musical Box Society International is a non-profit organization dedicated to the enjoyment, study and preservation of all automatic musical instruments. |
| The Organ Cave - Organ Cave is located in Greenbrier County, West Virginia and has 7 entrances to its 39.5 miles of multilevel passages. It is the 7th-longest cave system in the United States. |
| The Pneumaphone Project - Boreas, Eurus, Notus, Astraeos, Adad, Apu-Matangi, Ventus, Tembo, Xix, Shu, Njord...all pneumaphones, pneumatic soundsculptures or instruments, or both, if you wish. Flutes, single-reeds, lipps, tongues, double-reeds, sirens, whistles, membranes, mirlitons, water-organs, cavity-resonators and such, make up the individual voice of each single pneumaphone, all together a wind orchestra: Pneumaphone. |
| The Probability Pipe Organ - This page, which requires a Web browser that supports Java applets, demonstrates how experiments with random data converge toward the predictions of probability theory as more and more experiments are run. |
| The Stone Organ - The stone organ is a project to construct a pipe organ almost entirely out of stone, in this case marble. The organ is being built in Novelda, in the province of Alicante, Spain, by a young Spanish organ builder, Ivan Larrea. When completed, it will have two manuals, pedals, 11 stops and a total of over 700 pipes. |
| Transistor Organ - This simple circuit can provide hours of enjoyment as you learn tunes, play duets or just make some really weird sounds by pushing all the buttons at once. |
| Trivento and other organ-like instruments - A description of organ-like instruments created in the 20th century, including the telharmonium and the Trivento |
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