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chamber organ

British  

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

In one of the upper rooms his eyes were attracted by an old chamber organ, which had once been lent for use in the church. 

From Two on a Tower by Hardy, Thomas

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