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Great Stalacpipe Organ, the Glossary

The Great Stalacpipe Organ is an electrically actuated lithophone located in Luray Caverns, Virginia, USA.^[1]

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17 relations: Enharmonic equivalence, Found object (music), Guinness World Records, Lithophone, Luray Caverns, Meccano Magazine, Organ console, Pepe Deluxé, Pipe organ, Pitched percussion instrument, Queen of the Wave, Rosicrucian Digest, Shenandoah National Park, Smithsonian Institution, Solenoid, Stalactite, Waynesboro, Virginia.
Cave geology
Keyboard percussion instruments
Lithophones

Enharmonic equivalence

In music, two written notes have enharmonic equivalence if they produce the same pitch but are notated differently.

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Found object (music)

Found objects are sometimes used in music, often to add unusual percussive elements to a work.

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Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Lithophone

A lithophone is a musical instrument consisting of a rock or pieces of rock which are struck to produce musical notes. Great Stalacpipe Organ and lithophone are keyboard percussion instruments and lithophones.

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Luray Caverns

Luray Caverns, previously Luray Cave, is a cave just west of Luray, Virginia, United States, which has drawn many visitors since its discovery in 1878.

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Meccano Magazine

Meccano Magazine was an English monthly hobby magazine published by Meccano Ltd between 1916 and 1963, and by other publishers between 1963 and 1981.

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Organ console

The pipe organ is played from an area called the console or keydesk, which holds the manuals (keyboards), pedals, and stop controls.

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Pepe Deluxé

Pepe Deluxé is a finnish electronic music oriented band, formed in 1996 by DJ Slow (Vellu Maurola) JA-Jazz (Tomi Castrén, formerly Paajanen) and James Spectrum (Jari Salo) in Helsinki, Finland.

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Pipe organ

The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called wind) through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard.

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Pitched percussion instrument

A pitched percussion instrument (also known as a melodic or tuned percussion instrument) is a percussion instrument used to produce musical notes of one or more pitches, as opposed to an unpitched percussion instrument which is used to produce sounds of indefinite pitch.

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Queen of the Wave

Queen of the Wave is the fourth album by Pepe Deluxé, released on CD by Catskills in the UK on January 30, 2012, and digitally by Asthmatic Kitty Records in the US on January 31.

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Rosicrucian Digest

Rosicrucian Digest is a publication of AMORC, published continuously from 1915.

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Shenandoah National Park

Shenandoah National Park (often) is a national park in the Eastern United States that encompasses part of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The park is long and narrow, with the Shenandoah River and its broad valley to the west, and the rolling hills of the Virginia Piedmont to the east.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.

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Solenoid

An illustration of a solenoid Magnetic field created by a seven-loop solenoid (cross-sectional view) described using field lines A solenoid is a type of electromagnet formed by a helical coil of wire whose length is substantially greater than its diameter, which generates a controlled magnetic field.

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