Organ and organs may refer to:

Biology

Organ (biology) In a multicellular organism, an organ is a collection of Tissue (biology), tissues joined in a structural unit to serve a common function. In the biological organization, hierarchy of life, an organ lies between Tissue (biology), tissue and an o ...

, a group of tissues organized to serve a common function *

Organ system An organ system is a biological system consisting of a group of organ (biology), organs that work together to perform one or more bodily functions. Each organ has a specialized role in an organism body, and is made up of distinct Tissue (biolog ...

, a collection of organs that function together to carry out specific functions within the body.

Musical instruments

Organ (music) Carol Williams performing at the West_Point_Cadet_Chapel.html" ;"title="United States Military Academy West Point Cadet Chapel">United States Military Academy West Point Cadet Chapel. In music, the organ is a keyboard instrument of one or mo ...

, a family of keyboard musical instruments characterized by sustained tone **

Electronic organ An electric organ, also known as electronic organ, is an electronic keyboard instrument which was derived from the pump organ, harmonium, pipe organ and theatre organ. Originally designed to imitate their sound, or orchestral sounds, it has si ...

, an electronic keyboard instrument **

Hammond organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert, first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding #Drawbars, drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, sound was created ...

, an electro-mechanical keyboard instrument **

Pipe organ The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called ''wind'') through the organ pipes selected from a Musical keyboard, keyboard. Because each pipe produces a single tone and pitch, the pipes are provide ...

, a musical instrument that produces sound when pressurized air is driven through a series of pipes **

Fairground organ A fairground organ is a musical organ covering the wind and percussive sections of an orchestra. Originating in Paris, France, these organs were designed for use in commercial fairground settings to provide loud music to accompany rides and a ...

, an automatic mechanical organ designed to provide loud music in fairground settings ** Street organ, a mobile, automatic mechanical pneumatic organ played by an organ grinder **

Theatre organ A theatre organ (also known as a theater organ, or, especially in the United Kingdom, a cinema organ) is a type of pipe organ developed to accompany silent films from the 1900s to the 1920s. Theatre organs have horseshoe-shaped arrangements of ...

, a pipe organ originally designed specifically for imitation of an orchestra *** BBC Theatre Organ, several theatre organs used for popular BBC radio programmes

Entertainment

* Harry "Snapper" Organs, a fictional characterization of a police superintendent from a 1970 Monty Python sketch.

Films

* ''Organ'' (film), a 1996 Japanese film about organ thieves * ''The Organ'' (film), a 1965 Slovak film

Music

The Organ (band) The Organ was a Canadian post-punk band formed in Vancouver in 2001. They officially broke up in 2006 due to illness and personal conflicts in the band. History Early years The Organ were conceived in 2001 by frontwoman Katie Sketch in Va ...

, a Canadian rock band 2001–2006 * Organ (album), a 2021 album by Dimension * "Organs", a 2003 song by Moe from '' Wormwood''. * "Organs", a 2006 song by The Black Maria on the MVP Baseball (video game series) soundtrack. * "Organs", a 2015 song by Of Monsters and Men from ''Beneath the Skin''.

Periodicals

* Organ, any official

periodical Periodical literature (singularly called a periodical publication or simply a periodical) consists of Publication, published works that appear in new releases on a regular schedule (''issues'' or ''numbers'', often numerically divided into annu ...

(i.e., magazine, newsletter, or similar publication) of an organization * ''Organ'' (magazine), a UK music magazine founded in 1986 * ''The Organ'' (magazine), a quarterly publication for organ enthusiasts, founded in 1921 * ''The Organ'' (newspaper), an underground newspaper published in San Francisco from 1970 to 1972

Places

United States

Organ, New Mexico Organ is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 323. Description Organ was started as a mining camp prior to the American Civil War. ...

, an unincorporated community *

Organ Mountains The Organ Mountains (also known as La Sierra de los Órganos) are a rugged mountain range in southern New Mexico in the Southwestern United States. Organ Mountains–Desert Peaks National Monument was declared a national monument on May 21, 2014 ...

, New Mexico *

The Organ (Arches National Park) The Organ is a pillar in Grand County, Utah, United States Description The Organ is located within Arches National Park and like many of the rock formations in the park, it is composed of Entrada Sandstone, specifically the Slick Rock Member ...

, a butte in Utah *

The Organ (Zion National Park) The Organ is a elevation Navajo Sandstone summit located in Zion National Park, in Washington County of southwest Utah, United States. The Organ is situated in the Big Bend at the north end of Zion Canyon, rising above the canyon floor and ...

, a summit in Utah *

Organ Rock Formation The Organ Rock Formation or Organ Rock Shale is a formation within the late Pennsylvanian to early Permian Cutler Group and is deposited across southeastern Utah, northwestern New Mexico, and northeastern Arizona. This formation notably outcrops ...

, in Utah, New Mexico and Arizona *

Organ Cave Organ Cave is a large and historic cave in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA. The Organ Cave, West Virginia, surrounding community takes its name from the cave. In 1973, the Organ Cave System—also known ...

, Virginia

Elsewhere

Organ Peak Organ Peak () is the northernmost peak of Arrowsmith Peninsula, Graham Land. Mapped in 1960 from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the ...

, Graham Land, Antarctica *

Serra dos Órgãos The Serra dos Órgãos ("Organ Range") is a mountain range in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It contains the Serra dos Órgãos National Park. Location The Serra dos Órgãos is the name of the region of the Serra do Mar in the central ...

, or Organ Range, a mountain range in Brazil *

Organ, Hautes-Pyrénées Organ () is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France. See also *Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other deri ...

, a commune in France * Organ, Iran, a village in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran * Organ-e Kord, a village in Qazvin Province, Iran * Organ-e Tork, a village in Qazvin Province, Iran

Other uses

* Organ, a division within an organization, for example, organs of United Nations *

Organs of state The separation of powers principle functionally differentiates several types of state power (usually law-making, adjudication, and execution) and requires these operations of government to be conceptually and institutionally distinguishable ...

, branches of power within a government * Organ, an old word for a mental faculty, particularly in the context of

phrenology Phrenology is a pseudoscience that involves the measurement of bumps on the skull to predict mental traits. It is based on the concept that the Human brain, brain is the organ of the mind, and that certain brain areas have localized, specific ...

* Organ, a slang word for a

penis A penis (; : penises or penes) is a sex organ through which male and hermaphrodite animals expel semen during copulation (zoology), copulation, and through which male placental mammals and marsupials also Urination, urinate. The term ''pen ...

* Organ (surname), a list of people with the surname