pipe organ

noun

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The feature event will be the world premiere of San Diego composer Michelle Lou’s electro-acoustic music piece for voices, tubas, pipe organ and electronics. Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026 If the standard Manhattan is a song played on a piano, the Black Manhattan is that same song on a pipe organ—big, booming chords of flavor, filling every available space. Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2026 The Congress Theater originally also housed a Wurlitzer theater pipe organ with 20 ranks of pipes. Adam Harrington, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026 Then, in the distance, a camera flash lit up a hellish sight—wreathed in the smoke from village fires, a great black pipe organ, as tall as the houses on either side, heaved and rolled across the square. Veronique Greenwood, Time, 21 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pipe organ

Word History

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 31 Mar. 2026.

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