Do you know where the largest musical instrument in Russia is located? This huge organ is installed in the Svetlanov Hall of the Moscow International House of Music. The organ weighs 30 tons, the total height is about 15 meters, like a five-story building, the total number of pipes in the organ is six thousand. The largest pipes reach a length of 10 meters. Let's get to know this amazing tool closer and even look inside.
2. The project of the organ of the Moscow International House of Music was developed specifically for the Svetlanov Hall long before the opening of the concert venue.
“The hall and the organ must be created together, at the same time, as if for each other,” explains Pavel Nikolayevich Kravchun, associate professor of the Department of Acoustics at Moscow State University and chief caretaker of the organs of the Moscow International House of Music, who participated in the creation of the instrument. 
3. The organ was built in Germany by the world famous consortium of German firms Glatter Gotz (Ovingen) and Klais (Bonn). It was manufactured and initially assembled in Bonn in the spring of 2004, transported to Moscow in the summer. It took six months to install and set up the instrument. The solemn opening ceremony of the organ took place on December 21, 2004. In the spring of the following year, the first organ festival was held in the Svetlanov Hall with the participation of outstanding musicians from around the world. 
4. The organ control panel of the House of Music has four manual keyboards (manuals) located one above the other, each keyboard has 61 keys. Another 32 pedal keys are on the foot (pedal) keyboard. In addition, there are many auxiliary buttons and handles on the remote control. 
5. Using the knobs, you can turn on or off the corresponding register, that is, a group of pipes of the same timbre. In total, there are 84 such registers and two more sound-visual ones. Each register constitutes, as it were, a separate musical instrument, for example, a flute, an oboe, or even Christmas bells. It turns out that the handles turn on the necessary registers, and the keys open the air to the pipes of specific tones. If drawbars are off, the organ will not sound when a key is pressed. 
6. A certain group of pipes is assigned to each keyboard. The connection of the keys with the valves that open the access of air to most of the pipes is mechanical. Therefore, the farther the pipes are from the performer, the harder the keys responsible for them are pressed. For example, the first keyboard is associated with pipes located a meter from the organist, its keys are pressed easily and without hindrance. And the fourth keyboard is responsible for the outermost pipes located in the upper part of the organ - there the keys are pressed through with some difficulty (of course: from it to the pipes 13 meters up and a few more meters to the left and right).
The shamad registers and the lowest-sounding pedal registers are electrically connected, since air pressure creates a large force on the valves. 
7. Three huge fans are responsible for supplying air to the pipes. Previously, before the advent of electric motors, air was forced into the organs by specially trained people who stomped on huge pumps - furs. 
8. They play the organ with their hands and feet at the same time. The possibilities and sound of the instrument are amazing. The range of this organ is from infrasound (8 hertz) to ultrasound. In terms of sound volume, the organ is comparable to a whole symphony orchestra. 
9. This is how a recording of a work for organ looks like. Given that all organs are different, a lot of performance depends on the specific organ and organist. 
10. The feet have their own pedal board. 
11. You can also control the sound volume with your feet. 
12. Pavel Nikolaevich is a wonderful storyteller and a very enthusiastic person. Organs are his whole life. He became interested in this instrument while still a schoolboy, because of the organ he entered the Department of Acoustics of the Physics Department of Moscow State University, now he is a leading specialist in organs in Russia. We were very lucky with the tour. 
13. A few words about the hall. It is finished with larch for better sound. 
14. For better acoustics, many panels are fixed at angles. 
15. But that's not all. In order to have good acoustics throughout the hall, a special Constellation system is used. The principle of operation of Constellation can be described as follows. Microphones pick up sound in certain parts of the hall, then the processor processes this sound according to a certain algorithm and sends it to the speakers located in the hall. In this way, the room acoustics can be simulated and controlled. 
16. Depending on the settings, you can achieve sound like in a cathedral or in a huge hall, the dimensions of which are several times larger than the real dimensions of the hall. 
17. Now let's go see how the organ looks from the other side. We take the elevator up a few floors. 
18. This is what an organ looks like from the inside. A huge number of pipes and intricacies of mechanisms. 
19. Mechanical rods go from the keys to the pipes. When you press the key, the shutters open and the pipes sound. 
20. Rods are made of wood. Attempts to replace the tree with metal cables were unsuccessful, the metal is too sensitive to temperature changes. 
21. The pipes in the organ are made of different materials, there are metal pipes made of an alloy of tin and lead and wooden ones - made of pear, pine and oak. The timbre and pitch of the sound depend on the design of the pipe, material and size. 
22. The wall thickness of metal pipes is only 0.5 mm, the alloy is very soft, if you carelessly touch the pipe, you can leave a dent. 
23. The organ is a rather “weather-sensitive” device, temperature and humidity changes can affect the sound quality. Therefore, the microclimate is monitored very carefully. 
24. The design of the pipes provides for the possibility of customization. It is different for different pipes, some are equipped with special tongues, the smallest pipes need to be flared or rolled. 
25. Organ tuning lasts several hours and is performed before each concert. It takes tremendous patience to tune the organ. 
26. This is what the "mouth" of the pipe looks like. Through it the pipe "sings". 
27. The smallest pipes are several centimeters in size. It is even surprising that these little ones can sound for the whole hall. 
28. Remember the pipes sticking out on the facade? This is how they look from the balcony inside the organ. 
29. In general, the instrument is fantastic, you should definitely listen to it. 
30. Many thanks to the Moscow International House of Music for the most interesting tour. 
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We present to your attention a list of the ten most difficult musical instruments to learn. Please note that the musical instruments listed are do not contain order. If you know other more difficult musical instruments to master, be sure to share them in the comments.
The oboe is a woodwind musical instrument with a melodious, but somewhat nasal, sharp timbre. It first appeared in the middle of the 17th century when it was called hautbois. Today, the oboe is widely used in chamber music concerts, orchestras, in some genres of folk music, as a solo instrument, and can also be heard in jazz, rock and pop music.
One of the most complex musical instruments in the world is the "horn" - a musical instrument from the wind group, derived from a hunting signal horn. It is used mainly in symphony and brass bands, as well as a solo instrument.
The violin is a bowed, usually four-stringed musical instrument, descended from an ancient Indian stringed instrument called the Ravanahatha, brought to Italy by Arab traders between the 10th and 16th centuries. The name of the violin comes from the Italian word Violino, which literally means "small viola". It acquired its modern look in Italy in the 16th century, and in the 18th century it was slightly modified. Instruments made between the 16th and 18th centuries are highly prized by collectors, especially the Stradivari and Guarneri violins. It is a solo musical instrument.
An organ is a keyboard musical instrument that produces sound by releasing compressed air through a system of pipes. It is one of the oldest musical instruments, whose history is traced in ancient Greece as far back as the third century BC. Organs are common in Catholic churches and some synagogues, and are often used to accompany religious services. In the early 20th century, these instruments were often installed in movie theaters to accompany films musically during the silent film era. The world's largest operating organ is the Wanamaker Organ, which is located in Macy's Lord & Taylor shopping center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA and consists of 28,482 pipes.
The bagpipe is an ancient folk wind instrument that has been part of the culture of Scotland and Ireland for centuries. It was especially popular in the Middle Ages, where it was used in military bands. It is believed that the bagpipe from Asia to Europe came in the 9th century due to the fact that it was common in the Eastern Roman Empire. The sound of this instrument is very sharp and strong.
Another most complex musical instrument is the "Harp" - a stringed musical instrument known from antiquity in Asia, Africa and Europe, starting from 3500 BC. e. For many centuries it has been the political symbol of Ireland.
The piano is a stringed musical instrument that is widely used in classical music. Its inventor is the Italian harpsichord maker Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco, who designed the first piano in Florence in 1711. Although the instrument is quite bulky and often expensive, its versatility and ubiquity have made the piano one of the most famous musical instruments in the world.
The accordion is a keyboard-pneumatic musical instrument, which was designed in 1829 by the Viennese organ master K. Demian. It is a modern version of the hand harmonica. The accordion is not used in classical or symphony orchestras due to its specific sound, but is traditionally associated with folk music. More generally, the instrument is used as a solo. Widely spread throughout the world. The accordion is the official instrument of the city of San Francisco, California, USA.
The classical guitar is a stringed musical instrument with six strings and a wide variety of tones. It is used as a solo, ensemble and accompanying instrument. It has existed in its modern form since the second half of the 17th century.
Drum set - a set of drums, cymbals and other percussion instruments. Today it is perceived as a single musical instrument, although in fact it is a number of different instruments, each of which has its own history and existed long before the advent of the drum set. This instrument originated after the advent of jazz, around the 1890s, when New Orleans drummers began to adapt their drums so that one player could play several instruments at once. The number of instruments in the kit is different for each performer and depends on his playing style.
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the first musical instrument - the shepherd's pipe - was made by the god Pan. One day, on the shore, he exhaled through the reeds and heard his breath, passing along the trunk, produce a sad lament. He cut the trunk into unequal parts, tied them together, and now he had the first musical instrument!1899 Mikhail Alexandrovich Vrubel "Pan"
The truth is that we cannot name the first musical instrument, since all the primitive people all over the world seem to have created some kind of music. It was usually music with some kind of religious meaning, and the audience became participants in it. They danced, drummed, clapped and sang along with her. It wasn't just for fun. This primitive music was a significant part of people's lives.
The legend of Pan and the reed suggests how man came up with the idea of making so many different musical instruments. He may have imitated the sounds of nature, or used nature's objects around him to create his music.
The first musical instruments were percussion (drum type). 
Later, man invented wind instruments made from animal horns. From these primitive wind instruments, modern brass instruments have evolved. As man developed his musical sense, he began to use reeds and thus produced more natural and gentler sounds. 
In 2009, an expedition led by archaeologist Nicholas Conard from the University of Tübengen discovered the remains of several musical instruments. During excavations in the Hols Fels cave in Germany, scientists managed to find four bone flutes. The most interesting find is a 22-cm flute which is 35,000 years old.
The flute has 5 holes for extracting sounds and a mouthpiece.
These finds show that the Neanderthal already knew how to make musical instruments. This circumstance allows us to take a different look at the world of primitive man, it turns out that music in his world played far from the last role.
Finally, man invented the simple lyre and harp, from which bowed instruments came. The lyre was the most important stringed instrument of ancient Greece and Rome, along with the cithara. According to myth, the lyre was invented by Hermes. For its manufacture, Garmes used a tortoise shell; for the antelope horn frame.
In the Middle Ages, the Crusaders brought many amazing oriental musical instruments from their campaigns. Combined with the folk instruments that already existed in Europe, they developed into many instruments that are now used to play music.
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The art of miniature did not bypass musical instruments. There are only a dozen craftsmen in the world who can skillfully reproduce a small copy of a full-size piano or cello. We present a list of the smallest musical instruments.
The smallest piano
In 2006, the Japanese company Sega Toys created a tiny electronic piano weighing just over 3 kilograms. An exact copy of the grandiose concert instrument measures 25 cm wide, 33 cm long and 18 cm high. 
The creators of the mini-piano called Grand Pianist assure that their musical instrument is not a toy. By pressing the keys, you can hear a real live sound. However, playing it is quite inconvenient, since the size of each of the 88 keys is 4 mm wide.
How to play the smallest piano in the world
In addition, 100 ready-made melodies of various musical genres are built into the database of the smallest piano for autoplay. Also, the “mini-keys” have a slot for a memory card and connection to an mp3 player.
The smallest saxophone
The smallest saxophone is called Sopranissimo, or Soprillo. The length of the instrument is 30 cm, while the most common alto saxophone has a size of 80 cm. 
The soprillo saxophone has a pronounced squeaky sound due to the small size of the instrument.
An extremely small mouthpiece requires the performer to play embouchure, a special way of folding the lips of musicians for playing wind instruments. It is especially difficult to play the soprillo in the upper register.
The demand for the Sopranissimo Sax among musicians is very low, so manufacturers still continue to produce this subspecies of the saxophone exclusively for decorative purposes. The low popularity of the soprillo compared to alto and tenor saxophones also affects its price - you can buy such an instrument for $ 3,400.
The smallest harmonica
The smallest harmonica is considered Little Lady from the German company Honner. The length of the microharmonica is 5 cm, the thickness is 15 mm, and the weight is only 18 grams. The manufacturer positions the instrument as a key chain, but it can be played as a full-fledged harmonica. 
Little Lady has only four holes with a range of one octave, which is very reminiscent of Honner's "Vetorok" (original Speedy) children's harmonica. Both are tuned in the key of C major.
Despite its uniquely small size, the Little Lady is not uncommon. You can buy an accordion with a brass body and pearwood inlays for $23.
The smallest violin
Violinist Chen from China created a violin 1 cm long. It is made of maple and is a working instrument, although it is difficult to play it. It took him 7 years to create this tiny violin. 
It's not the only mini-tool in Chen's arsenal. Previously, he made violins 2 cm and 3.5 cm long. The 9 mm violin was created by Mikhail Maslyuk, a resident of the Ukrainian Zhmerinka, from the city of Zhmerynka. On a coin with a face value of 1 kopeck, 5 such instruments can fit.
The record holder in the manufacture of small violins is Mykola Sryadisty from Kiev. He created an instrument even smaller than Maslyuk's violin. Its length is 0.5 mm, and the violin easily passes through the eye of the needle. The violin made by Sryadisty is an exact copy of the Stradivarius violin.
The smallest cello
In 1973, master Eric Meissner introduced the world to a tiny 41 mm long cello. The instrument is designed so that it can be played without taking into account the fact that it is not very convenient to do so. The mini-cello exists in a single copy and in Meissner's private house. 
The smallest balalaika
Nikolai Sryadisty managed to create not only a tiny violin, but also the smallest balalaika, consisting of 40 parts. Each of its strings is 50 times thinner than a human hair, and the instrument itself is made of wood. 
To decorate his miniature, Sryadsty made a case, connecting two poppy seeds with a cobweb. Inside the left recess, he engraved a portrait of the virtuoso balalaika player Vasily Andreev, and placed a nano-balalaika in the right one.
There is a guitar whose dimensions correspond to the size of a blood cell, namely 0.001 mm. In 1997, it was created by Harold Craighead and Dustin Carr, professors at the Department of Nanotechnology at Cornell University in the USA. 
It was not until 2011 that Craighead and Carr came up with a special laser beam to play the miracle instrument. You will not be able to hear the sounds of a mini-violin, since the sounds it produces are outside the human auditory range.
The thickness of each of the six strings is 2,000 times thinner than a human hair, and they can only be played using a special laser beam. In the late 90s, the nanoguitar entered the Guinness Book of Records as the smallest in the world.
The smallest harp
In 1999, the same Cornell University scientists created the nanoharp, which is recognized as the smallest stringed instrument. 
The mini-afra is cut out of silicon monocrystal. The thickness of its strings is a thousand times less than a human hair. They emit a sound too high a frequency for the perception of the human ear, so a person can only follow the vibration of the strings in the pictures of the electron microscope.
Micronium - the smallest musical instrument in the world
In 2010, students at the Department of Nanotechnology at the University of Twente in the Netherlands presented a system of hundreds of nanochips integrated into a silicon crystal. Micronium is capable of playing the sounds of any instrument from a symphony orchestra. Each chip sounds in six keys.Subscribe to our channel in Yandex.Zen
- shepherd's pipe
- whistle
- harmonica
- horn
- piccolo flute
- triangle.
- pipe - forty-eight points;
- balalaika - five points;
- VIOLIN(definitely not among the small musical instruments) - 41 points;
- FLUTE- 22 points;
- harmonica(this is already warmer) - 18 points;
- DUDKA(with flute roll call) - 12 points;
- BALALAIKA(wow, small musical instrument) - 5 points;
- TAMBOURINE(there is no harp, give a tambourine - how can you not remember Leonid Bykov) - 2 points.
- harmonica;
- Pipe;
- Pipe;
- Horn;
- Flute;
- spoons;
- Triangle;
- Clarinet
Probably the smallest is a whistle, also a harmonica, a flute is not a big (comparatively) triangle (drummers use it), a pipe that shepherds use. Mini accordion (there is one). The horn is also not a great instrument.
Based on the size of the smallest musical instruments, then they should probably be listed in this order -
Of course, there are still many different national instruments of a fairly small size.
What is the smallest music. tool? Right answers
The most popular answer is violin - 164 points;
The second most popular - flute - forty-four points;
The next answer is harmonica - eighteen points;
The least popular answer is a tambourine - two points.
You can also add an answer - a small instrument triangle percussion musical instrument
The problem is that you can imagine what this instrument looks like, but you don’t know the name, but it’s not among the answers that 100 to 1 players considered correct (such a rope that they blow and play with a finger, Valdis Pelsh on such piece played once).
The answers should be as follows, in order to score the maximum points:
In an exciting game 100 to 1. To the question What is the smallest musical instrument? there will be answers like this:
triangle
harmonica.
Harmonica, since childhood I like it the most :)
In fact, there are several musical instruments that are very miniature in size. But the smallest of them, in my opinion, is the harmonica. Among the harmonicas there are specimens no larger than a matchbox.
Perhaps there are smaller musical instruments, but I have not seen them.
If the whistle can be considered a musical instrument, then in its parameters it also fits into the ranks of the smallest musical instruments.)
Musical instruments come in a variety of sizes, the smallest of which are those that have the simplest design and fit in the hand. Obviously, these are various kinds of pipes: this is a piccolo flute (translated from Italian - small), a flute, a harmonica, a horn. Interesting material about the smallest musical instruments in the world is here.
The smallest musical instrument:
There are probably other small instruments, but only professional musicians know them.
Flute - piccolo, harmonica, whistle, pipe, whistle, triangle. These are the smallest, so to speak, miniature instruments in my opinion. The rest are already a little larger, a little louder. Surely these options will fall into the most popular ones, but there will be others, interesting ones.
The answer to your musical riddle is a 100 to 1 question. What musical instrument will be the smallest.
In the first place will be - Flute.
The second place will be taken by the Armenian Duduk.
In third place will be - Harmonica.
The smallest musical instruments are harmonica, piccolo flute, jew's harp or drymba, piccolo saxophone, flute, nozzle (sniffle), triangle (percussion instrument), harmonica, pipe, castanets, box (percussion instrument).
The smallest musical instrument is probably the harmonica, flute, flute, fife, tambourine, castanets, gong, pity, flute, horn, duduk. Maybe of course they are not the smallest, but something will definitely fall out.
