Real recorded organ notes on a piano keyboard: click, touch or type, and the organ answers. The organ is the keyboard instrument that sustains: a chord stays as loud as long as you hold it. Free, nothing to install, with note names, your computer keyboard and a metronome.
Recorded notes, the organ's own range, and the keyboard you already know.
Every key plays a recording of a real organ: 21 notes from C1 to C6, each key pitched from the nearest one. The organ is keyboard instrument with a sustained tone: a steady tone that lasts exactly as long as the key is held, with no decay: on a pipe organ, air from a wind chest sounds the pipes; on an electric organ, tone wheels or circuits do the same job.
The keyboard covers C1 to F6, where the recordings sound natural; a real organ plays C1 to F6 on this page. Use the octave arrows to move, and More keys on a wide screen.
Hold full chords with both hands and change them slowly: on an organ the sound does not fade, so every chord fills the room. The note sounds as long as you hold the key, like a bow or a breath.
Famous organ music: Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor; Widor, Toccata from Organ Symphony No. 5; Saint-Saëns, Symphony No. 3 "Organ"; Gospel and soul jazz. Pick out a melody by ear on the keyboard above.
Click or touch a key. The first note starts the sound; the organ recordings for the visible keys load in the background.
A S D F G H J K L play the white keys, W E T Y U O P the black ones (Q and Z on AZERTY). Z and X move an octave (W and X on AZERTY).
Set Labels to C D E or Do Ré Mi to see every note name, or to Keys to see your own keyboard letters.
Turn on the metronome and play along. Then try the same melody on the harmonium or the piano.
| Type | Sampled organ, playable on this page, free |
|---|---|
| Family | Keyboards - keyboard instrument with a sustained tone |
| Samples | 21 recorded notes, C1 to C6 |
| Range here | C1 to F6 |
| Real range | C1 to F6 on this page |
| Notation | Treble and bass clef, plus a pedal staff on the pipe organ |
| Controls | Labels, octave arrows, More keys and a metronome |
| Computer keyboard | Ableton layout by key position - QWERTY, AZERTY, QWERTZ |
| Credits | Organ samples from tonejs-instruments by Nicholas Brosowsky, CC BY 3.0 - see credits |
| Requirements | Any modern browser with Web Audio - Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari |
Most online instruments are a synthesiser with a picture on top. This one plays recordings of a real organ, so the attack, the tone and the decay are the instrument's own. The organ is the keyboard instrument that sustains: a chord stays as loud as long as you hold it.
The first organ, the hydraulis, was built in Alexandria in the 3rd century BC. The great church organs of the Baroque inspired Bach's music; the electric organs of the 20th century gave jazz, gospel and rock their sound.
A real organ is written in treble and bass clef, plus a pedal staff on the pipe organ. The keyboard here plays the sounding notes, so a melody you find by ear is the melody you hear. To go further, the free sheet music and chord pages work with any instrument you can read music on.
Yes. Every key plays a recording of a real organ - 21 notes from C1 to C6 - pitched to the nearest key. The recordings come from the tonejs-instruments library, under a Creative Commons licence.
Yes. The middle row of letters plays the white keys and the row above it the black keys, by key position, so it works the same on QWERTY, AZERTY and QWERTZ keyboards. Set Labels to Keys to see the letters on the keys.
A organ plays C1 to F6 on this page. On this page the keyboard goes from C1 to F6, where the recordings sound natural.
Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor; Widor, Toccata from Organ Symphony No. 5; Saint-Saëns, Symphony No. 3 "Organ"; Gospel and soul jazz.
Yes, free with no account and nothing to install. It runs in any modern browser, on a computer, a tablet or a phone.
The organ on this page is free, with no account. GOONS Studio adds a sampled piano, drum machines, synths and a sequencer in the browser - free for 7 days, no card required.
Free on this page, no account. Play the harmonium →