About the Organ

A repository of interesting educational info about the pipe organ.

Pipe Organs, Builders, Design, Operation

• How the Organ Works
• The Pipe Organ Education Project
• OHS Organ Database
• Specifications and History of the Buzard Organ at All Saints’, Atlanta
• World’s Largest Pipe Organs, ordered by number of ranks
• Encyclopedia of Organ Stops

History

• The Ancient Hydraulis
• History of the Pipe Organ

Learn

• Video Playlist: Lessons for the New Organist
• Basic Organ Registration
• IMSLP: Free music for organ
• GrandOrgue: Free virtual pipe organ software 
• GrandOrgue Sample Sets – PiteaMS is a great one – Also see Friesach by Piotr Grabowski
• MIDI interface: for connecting your keyboard to the computer

Organ-izations

• American Guild of Organists – National – Atlanta
• Organ Historical Society

Video

• Lessons for the New Organist
• How It’s Made: Pipe Organ
• How an Organ Makes Music
• The King of Instruments
• Organ Demonstration at Washington National Cathedral
• Dangerous Organ Stop