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List of pipe organ stops

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Source revisionSep 6, 2026
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An organ stop can be one of three things:

the control on an organ console that selects a particular sound

the row of organ pipes used to create a particular sound, more appropriately known as a rank

the sound itself

Organ stops are sorted into four major types: principal, string, reed, and flute.

This is a sortable list of names that may be found associated with electronic and pipe organ stops. Countless stops have been designed over the centuries, and individual organs may have stops, or names of stops, used nowhere else. This non-comprehensive list deals mainly with names of stops found on numerous Baroque, classical and romantic organs. Here are a few of the most common ones:

See also

Abbatial church of Notre-Dame de Mouzon

Eight-foot pitch

References

External links

Stauff, Edward L. "Encyclopedia of Organ Stops". Archived from the original on 6 December 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2017.

"Pipe organ tonal design". a French organ builder's site in sometimes puzzling English.

"Dictionary of the most frequently used organ stops".

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