pipe organ

English

The organ of the Salt Lake Tabernacle, Utah

Noun

pipe organ (plural pipe organs)

2. (music) 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.

Hyponyms

• church organ

Derived terms

• pipe organist

Translations

musical instrument — see also organ

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 風琴／风琴 (fung¹ kam⁴)

  Mandarin: 管風琴／管风琴 (zh) (guǎnfēngqín), 風琴／风琴 (zh) (fēngqín)

• Dutch: pijporgel (nl) n
• Finnish: pilliurut pl
• French: orgue (fr) m, orgue à tuyaux m
• Hebrew: עוּגָב (he) m ('ugáv)
• Japanese: パイプオルガン (ja) (paipuorugan), オルガン (ja) (orugan)
• Maori: pūkeru paipa
• Russian: орга́н (ru) (orgán)

Anagrams

• organ pipe