Definition of Organ loft

1. Noun. A gallery occupied by a church organ.

Generic synonyms: Gallery

Lexicographical Neighbors of Organ Loft

org
org chart
orgal
organ-grinder
organ-specific
organ-specific antigen
organ console
organ consoles
organ culture
organ donation
organ donor
organ donors
organ grinder
organ grinders
organ loft (current term)
organ of Rosenmuller
organ of Rosenmüller
organ of corti
organ of hearing
organ of smell
organ of state
organ of taste
organ of touch
organ of vision
organ of zuckerkandl
organ pipe
organ pipe cacti
organ pipe cactus
organ pipe cactuses

Literary usage of Organ loft

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"organ-loft, which is not capable of affording accommodation to more than ninety persons, was fitted up for the nobility. These were the only places set ..."

2. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"... of Voluntaries and Other Selections—Sacred and Secular Music—Preparing for Festivals—Harmony in the Organ-loft—A Fair Field for the Woman Organist. ..."

3. Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of Music by William Smythe Babcock Mathews, Emil Liebling (1896)
"Organ-loft. That part of the gallery of a church where the organ is placed. Órgano (вг-ga'nô), It. An organ. Órgano pieno (ör-gä'nö рё-а'лб), ..."

4. Court and Private Life in the Time of Queen Charlotte: Being the Journals of by Charlotte Louise Henrietta Papendiek, Mrs Papendiek (1887)
"FROM Easter this year, we had been given two seats in St. George's Chapel, and having friends ' at Court' we also got access to the organ-loft, ..."

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