chamber organ

British  

noun

1. music a small compact organ used esp for the authentic performance of preclassical music

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Example Sentences

The choir reassembled up front for elegant, clear-textured accounts of two sublime Bach motets, accompanied only by continuo cello and chamber organ.

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2016

The singers are accompanied by just seven instruments, here played by the impressive musicians of the Britten Sinfonia, directed by Martin Fitzpatrick, who led the performance from the chamber organ.

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2014

Now it is directed by Harry Bicket, who leads it from a stack of keyboards — a legless harpsichord, resting atop a chamber organ.

From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2010

And Mr. Stein, switching from the chamber organ from which he led the vocal pieces to the church’s larger, more flexible instrument, gave an energetic and appealingly shaded performance of a Prelude by Nicolaus Bruhns.

From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2010

Apollonicon, a-pol-ōn′i-kon, n. a chamber organ of vast power, supplied with both keys and barrels, first exhibited in 1817.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various