Further Reading – Pipe Organ Topics
The King of Instruments
Enjoy learning more about the pipe organ and the marvelous music it can make! This list of somewhat randomly-selected links is for entertainment and edification only, and should not be considered a professionally-curated collection.
Pipe Organ Overviews, Basics and Definitions
- Organ Historical Society — Glossary
- The Pipe Organ – Wikipedia
- Pipe Organs — ASME via ETHW
- How Does a Pipe Organ Actually Work — Anna Lapwood
- Heavenly Sounds — The Organ and its Fascinating Versatility
- The King of Instruments: History, Science and Music of the Pipe Organ
- Organ 101 – Washington National Cathedral
Fun Facts, etc.
- Curious Facts — Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies
- Organ Sounds and Fun Facts — Longwood Gardens
- Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall and the World’s Largest Pipe Organ
- History of the Wanamaker Organ
- An Instrument the Size of a Building
- NYT Article on UMC Red Bank Organ Dedication 14 Sept 1975
History of the Pipe Organ
- Organ History — Organ Historical Society
- A Concise History of Organ Development — die Orgelseite
- The History of the Pipe Organ — Classic History insecure site
- Cathedral Organ Bellows and Blowers — Winchester Cathedral
- How a Pipe Organ Works — Pipe Dreams
- A Brief Look at the French Classical Organ, Its Origins and German Counterpart
Organ Music Composers, Compositions, and Performers
- Organ Composers — Wikipedia
- Organ repertoire – Wikipedia
- Greatest Organ Works — Classic FM
- Ten Great Organ Works on Ten Great Organs — Richard McVeigh
- Classic Organists – Wikipedia
- Musical Giants of the 20th Century — Organists — Interlude
Mechanical Action
- Tracker Action — Encyclopedia Britannica
- Pallet and Slider Chests — Organ Historical Society
- Some Technical Explanations — die Orgelseite
- Pipe Organs Architecture — orgues d’Alsace
Organ Pipes, Pipe Construction, and Sounds
- Encyclopedia of Organ Stops — not secure site
- Organ Pipe — Wikipedia
- Pipes — Organ Historical Society
- Pipe Organ Tuning — Wikipedia
- Variety of Organ Pipes and Stops — die Orgelseite
- Flue Pipes — Organ Historical Society
- Reed Pipes — Organ Historical Society
- How the Flue Pipe Speaks
- How the Reed Pipe Speaks
- Timbre — Wikipedia
- The Art of Voicing part I — Diapason
- The Art of Voicing part II — Diapason
Nerdy Topics
- Acoustics of Organ Pipes and Future Trends in Research — Acoustics Today
- The Aural Perception of Organ Tones
- The Tonal Structure of Organ Flutes
- The Tonal Structure of Principals
- The Tonal Structure of Organ Strings
- The Tonal Structure of Organ Reeds
- The Physics of End Correction in Organ Pipes — American Theatre Organ Society
- Why Pipe Organs Seem to Violate a Rule of Sound — Science News
- Observations on Organ Pipe Sounds Frequency Spectra
- The Music Envelope — Wikipedia
- Problem of Placing the Organ Pipes on the Windchest — ResearchGate (pipe-to-pipe proximity producing detuning)
- Physical Measurements and Subjective Characterization of Pipe Organ Mechanical Key Actions