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Bookmark or Share- Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)The sights and sounds of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, an International Biosphere Reserve, reveal a thriving community of plants and animals. Human stories echo throughout the Sonoran Desert, chronicling thousands of years of desert living.
- How does the pipe organ actually work? - Classic FMHow does a pipe organ make a sound? “On a piano, you press a key down, a hammer hits some strings and that’s how sound is created,” Lapwood says. “But on an organ, it’s all about wind.” Inside the organ, you’ll find several rows of pipes sitting on top of a wind chest, and a set of bellows will push air into that wind chest.
- Organ pipe - WikipediaWood and metal pipes of a variety of sizes are shown in this photograph. An organ pipe is a sound-producing element of the pipe organ that resonates at a specific pitch when pressurized air (commonly referred to as wind) is driven through it. Each pipe is tuned to a note of the musical scale.
- Organ Pipe Cactus - U.S. National Park ServiceOrgan Pipe Cactus National Monument is the only place in the United States to see large stands of organ pipe cacti growing naturally, though their range extends far south into Mexico. The organ pipe cactus is a wonderful example of the adaptations that cacti need to flourish in the Sonoran Desert.
- Pipe organ - WikipediaThe pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called wind) through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard. Because each pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks , each of which has a common timbre , volume, and construction throughout the keyboard compass .
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