Inside are more than 4,450 pipes of various kinds in metal and wood. The smallest is about the size of a pencil. Draw knobs activating the pipes flank the three manuals in a stepped, circular pattern, like an amphitheater. The placement makes it easier for the organist to change stops, Holloway said. Holloway will perform examples of this music as well as works of German composers Johann Sebastian Bach and Julius Reubke.
All pipe organs are custom-built.
The best ones emerge when musical needs are supplemented by dreams. Take Christ the King Lutheran Church, near Rice at Shepherd and Greenbriar. It had a good, small pipe organ that was modestly distinguished. Such an instrument would enhance both the Lutheran liturgy and the Vesper series. Dedicated in 1995, the organ by Noack Organ Co. has been a success.