Organ (music)

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Organ

Organ in Münster Cathedral, Germany
Keyboard instrument
Classification	Aerophone (pipe and reed organs) and electrophone (electronic[1] and electromechanical organs) with keyboard
Inventor(s)	Ctesibius
Developed	3rd century BC
Playing range
(a standard tuned organ)
Musicians
see List of organists and List of organ composers
Builders
see Category:Organ builders
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In music, the organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means (generally woodwind or electric) for producing tones. The organs have usually two or three, up to five, manuals for playing with the hands and a pedalboard for playing with the feet. With the use of registers, several groups of pipes can be connected to one manual.