Design / Manufacture / Assembly:	Karl Schuke Company (Berlin)
Console & Pipes:	4 keyboards + 1 pedalboard, 69 stops, 5143 pipes
Style:	German Romantic

In Japan the term "organ" brings to mind a reed organ or electric organ, whereas in Europe and America it is taken for granted that a plain "organ" must be a pipe organ. This strong association derives from the Middle Ages, since when it has been the sole musical instrument to be found in the church. Commonly used throughout non-Orthodox Europe and later spreading to America, the pipe organ is thus a familiar, everyday part of the Christian social and musical background. To define the pipe organ, one must say that it is a keyboard controlled instrument that produces musical tones by sending air though pipes. In its most basic form a blower is used to pressurize an air box, on top of which are the pipes. In the Middle Ages this blower would have been a hand or foot powered bellows, worked at first by a slave, then later by a poorly paid servant, in what must have been a very cruel labor. The wind box is fitted with valves, which open and shut to determine which of the pipes get air and thus sound out. The valves in turn are controlled by a keyboard, allowing the operator to play the individual pipe tones at will. The stops are switches that select among the various banks of pipes, allowing the operator to decide the type of pipes to be sounded. Organs come in a wide variety of sizes, from tiny to gigantic, with the most basic type having a simple, unbanked keyboard and only four or five stops. These are often called Positive Organs, where the term "positionable" has over time come to mean "portable", but also sometimes called Regal Organs. As the size of the organ increases, a pedalboard and extra bank of keys is added to control the increasing number of pipes, and the largest organs require upwards of three keyboards and a pedalboard to be played. The actual origin of the word is from the Greek "organon", meaning "fabricated tool", whence fabricated musical instrument. Since in the Middle Ages the only "fabricated" musical instrument around was often the one sitting in the church, the name stuck, giving us the contemporary organ.

A sibling to those of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Saar and Aichi theaters, this organ was crafted by the Karl Schuke company of Berlin, a reputable manufacturer of pipe organs (details as per spec). In style it follows the Romantic Organ school popularized in Germany in the latter half of the 19th century. Its lucid tones and solid sound make it most suitable for joint orchestral performances. Finally, in response to contemporary trends, pressure control is enabled, and the organ is also equipped with a swell function to control output volume.