pipe organ (redirected from Calcant)

pipe organ

n.

See organ.

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pipe organ

n

(Music / Instruments) another name for organ (the musical instrument) Compare reed organ

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pipe organ - wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard organ keyboard - device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like keyboard instrument - a musical instrument that is played by means of a keyboard organ pipe, pipework, pipe - the flues and stops on a pipe organ foot lever, foot pedal, treadle, pedal - a lever that is operated with the foot clavier, piano keyboard, fingerboard - a bank of keys on a musical instrument stop - (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes; "the organist pulled out all the stops" wind instrument, wind - a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath