pipe organ

Questions about pipe organ

What does pipe organ mean?

pipe organ means "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".

What is another word for pipe organ?

Close synonyms include organ. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pipe organ a common word?

pipe organ is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.