page_title: Organ (music)
section_title: Chamber organ
hierarchical_section_title: Organ (music) / Pipe organs / Chamber organ
caption_attribution_description: Meadows Museum at SMU, Dallas, Texas Organ by Pascoal Caetano Oldovini, 1762
context_page_description: In music, the organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means for producing tones, each played with its own keyboard, played either with the hands on a keyboard or with the feet using pedals.
context_section_description: A chamber organ is a small pipe organ, often with only one manual, and sometimes without separate pedal pipes that is placed in a small room, that this diminutive organ can fill with sound. It is often confined to chamber organ repertoire, as often the organs have too few voice capabilities to rival the grand pipe organs in the performance of the classics. The sound and touch are unique to the instrument, sounding nothing like a large organ with few stops drawn out, but rather much more intimate. They are usually tracker instruments, although the modern builders are often building electropneumatic chamber organs.
  Pre-Beethoven keyboard music may usually be as easily played on a chamber organ as on a piano or harpsichord, and a chamber organ is sometimes preferable to a harpsichord for continuo playing as it is more suitable for producing a sustained tone.
caption: Chamber organ by Pascoal Caetano Oldovini (1762).
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