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Definition of Organ loft
1. Noun. A gallery occupied by a church organ.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Organ Loft
Literary usage of Organ loft
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"organ-loft, which is not capable of affording accommodation to more than ninety
persons, was fitted up for the nobility. These were the only places set ..."
2. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"... of Voluntaries and Other Selections—Sacred and Secular Music—Preparing for
Festivals—Harmony in the Organ-loft—A Fair Field for the Woman Organist. ..."
3. Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of Music by William Smythe Babcock Mathews, Emil Liebling (1896)
"Organ-loft. That part of the gallery of a church where the organ is placed.
Órgano (вг-ga'nô), It. An organ. Órgano pieno (ör-gä'nö рё-а'лб), ..."
4. Court and Private Life in the Time of Queen Charlotte: Being the Journals of by Charlotte Louise Henrietta Papendiek, Mrs Papendiek (1887)
"FROM Easter this year, we had been given two seats in St. George's Chapel, and
having friends ' at Court' we also got access to the organ-loft, ..."
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