organ loft

 

organ loft (plural organ lofts)

1. The gallery or raised platform within a church or hall from which an organ is played, though not necessarily housing the organ itself.
   • 1942 November and December, Chas. S. Lake, “Some Continental Travel Experiences—II: A Sunday in Cologne”, in Railway Magazine, page 349:

     I visited the Cathedral at Cologne on the Sunday morning and sat in the organ loft with my friend, Professor Hans Bachem, who had given me a welcome on previous occasions and was anxious to come to London as a visiting recitalist at, say, Westminster Cathedral or the Albert Hall.