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It is the biggest instrument, and the most
complicated one in terms of sound production .
The organist plays it by beating the keyboards; yet the organ is a wind
instrument, for air passes through its many pipes thus producing sounds.
The longer the pipe - the lower the sound pitch .
Each set of pipes (tubes) is built differently, and so produces a different
kind of sound (clarinet-like
sounds, trumpet-like
sounds etc.) and is called a register. Special mechanisms assist the player
to shift registers and diversify his playing with different sorts of sounds. ),
since the price of building an organ was extremely high, and it later required
regular maintenance.)
and fixed church organs (the "positive" ).
In the 20th century, the electric organ
was born, and became very popular in pop music.
by Bach,
who was one of the best organists of his time,
and wrote hundreds of pieces for this instrument; the work of Handel,
with his organ concerti;
the organ sonatas by
Mendelssohn;
and the fantasia Liszt
wrote on the letters of Bach's name (translated
into the notes B-A-C-H).
There were two Kinds of Historical Organs:
Compact Electric Organ 
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