pipe organ

noun

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Many have replaced steam engines with electric motors, swapped out pipe organs for modern sound systems and installed straps and ramps for wheelchair accessibility. Christopher Cann, USA Today, 26 May 2025 The church also contains the only surviving pipe organ from the Liberty Theater. Devan Patel, Mercury News, 24 May 2025 In December the church’s doors were symbolically reopened and the pipe organ’s 8,000 pipes could be heard for the first time since being covered with toxic dust, as the public ws allowed inside for the first ceremonies and masses. Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 21 May 2025 Performing on the 97-rank 1979 Fisk pipe organ at The House of Hope Presbyterian Church, Karosi also performs works by Bach’s son, C.P.E. Bach, 17th-century French composer and organist Nicolas de Grigny, and late Renaissance Spanish composer Correa de Arauxo. Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 6 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pipe organ

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First Known Use

1862, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of pipe organ was in 1862

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“Pipe organ.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pipe%20organ. Accessed 29 Jun. 2025.

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