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In general, the pipe organs are all different, since
They are normally custom designed.
Various factors intervene in these designs, such as the architecture of the place, the size of the audience, the type of music you want to perform, and, certainly, the available budget. One of the ways to classify instruments is by the type of music for which they were designed. Thus, for example, there are baroque organs (particularly suitable to play baroque music), the romantic organs, the Spanish organs, the Nordic ones, etc more... |
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The organs are differentiated from each other by their sound structure, or, using a more technical terminology, due to the composition of stops that they make them up. To avoid semantic discussions, it is convenient to classify these instruments due to the diversity of sound resources they possess (the number of stops). An organ with a large number of registers allows for greater flexibility, and allows more complex music to be played, while a smaller number of stops, in general, reduces the possible repertoire to interpret. There are pipe organs of enormous dimensions. Just to present two examples, we want to mention: |
