Organ

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Organ usually refers to:

• Organ (music), a family of keyboard musical instruments characterized by sustained tone
  • Electronic organ, an electronic keyboard instrument
  • Hammond organ, an electro-mechanical keyboard instrument
  • Pipe organ, a musical instrument that produces sound when pressurized air is driven through a series of pipes
  • Theatre organ, a pipe organ originally designed specifically for imitation of an orchestra

Organ may also refer to:

Biology and medicine

• Organ (anatomy), a collection of different tissues joined in structural unit to serve a common function
• Organ pipe coral, a marine organism native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans
• Stenocereus thurberi, the organ pipe cactus plant
• Organ, a term sometimes used to refer to the penis.

Places

• Organ, Hautes-Pyrénées, a commune in France
• Organ, Iran, a village in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran
• Organ-e Kord, a village in Qazvin Province, Iran
• Organ-e Tork, a village in Qazvin Province, Iran

Organizations and government

• Division (business) within an organization; i.e., Organs of United Nations
• Organs of state, branches of power within a government

Media and entertainment

• Any official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.

Film

• Organ, a 1965 film directed by Štefan Uher
• Organ (film), a 1996 Japanese film about organ thieves
• The Organ (film), 1965 Slovak film

Publications

• Organ (magazine), a UK music magazine run by Organart
• The Organ (pipe organ magazine), a quarterly publication for organ enthusiasts, founded in 1921
• The Organ (newspaper), an underground newspaper published in San Francisco

Other uses

• Katyusha rocket launcher, often referred to as Stalin's organ
• The Organ (band), an indie rock band

See also

• All pages beginning with "Organ"
• All pages with a title containing Organ