English word senses marked with topical category "Organ instruments"

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Total 18 word senses

• barrel organ (Noun) A musical instrument in which air from a bellows is admitted to a set of pipes by means of pins inserted into a revolving barrel (typically turned by a crank), originating in France.
• calliope (Noun) A musical organ, consisting of steam whistles played with a keyboard. Often used with merry-go-rounds.
• chord organ (Noun) An electronic musical instrument having a single short keyboard and a set of chord buttons, enabling the musician to play a melody or lead with one hand and accompanying chords with the other.
• church organ (Noun) A large pipe organ installed in a Christian church.
• electric organ (Noun) electronic organ.
• electronic organ (Noun) A keyboard musical instrument, resembling a spinet, or upright, piano in size and general shape, in which tone is generated by electronic circuits and radiated by loudspeaker.
• harmonium (Noun) A small keyboard instrument that consists of a series of reed pipes, which sound when one of the keys is pressed to open a valve that allows air to pass through.
• harmonium (Noun) Synonym of Hooke's atom.
• melodeon (Noun) A type of reed organ with a single keyboard.
• melodeon (Noun) An accordion where the melody-side keyboard is limited to the notes of diatonic scales in a small number of keys.
• melodeon (Noun) A music hall.
• pipe organ (Noun) 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.
• pump organ (Noun) A keyboard musical instrument that generates sound by pumping air through a system of free reeds.
• reed organ (Noun) A keyboard musical instrument of which the harmonium and the American organ are the principal types.
• roller organ (Noun) A barrel organ.
• seraphine (Noun) An early wind instrument with a keyboard, resembling a cross between a reed organ and an accordion, which makes its sound by the action of air being blown across metallic reeds.
• street organ (Noun) A type of mechanically-played barrel organ designed to be played in the street.
• theatre organ (Noun) A large pipe organ, usually also containing percussion and sound effect elements, of the style found in silent film theatres.

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