Electronic organ

An electronic organ is an electronic device designed to imitate the sound of a pipe organ. Although many musicians hotly debate the sound quality of electronic organs compared to actual pipe organs, many churches that are unable to afford costly pipe organs have turned to less-expensive electronic organs as a viable alternative.

Early electronic organs used simple tone generators such as the famous Hammond tonewheels, but most modern electronic organs use high-quality digital samples to produce as accurate a sound as possible. The heat generated by early models with vacuum tube tone generators led to the somewhat derogatory nickname "toaster."