Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-09-12

Organ PaPOrs-NO. 4.
The celebrated organ in the church of St.
Eustache, Paris, was built in 1854 by Ducro-
quet, and has four manuals and sixty-sevenreg-
listers. Battiste plays here, the most celebra-
ted of French organists both as performer
and composer Of much organ music of the
French school, which is entirely different
from the German or English. His works
may be heard sometime. According to some
authorities, the organ at St. Sulpice, Paris,
before it was remodelled, was the largest or
gan ever built, they placing the number Of
! manuals at five, which was true, and the num-
! Der of registers at one hundred and five
which is doubtful. 1t has been lately rebuilt
| by Cavaillecoll, and the number of manuals
reduced to four and number of registers to
sixty-six. There is fine organ in the Stifts-
kirche at Stuttgart, built by Martin over a CEN
| fury ago. 1t has been repaired and enlarged
! by Walckler, and now has four manuals,
sixty eight registers, twenty one of which are
in the pedal organ, and one of thirtytwo feet
! in the great organ.
! The Beauvais cathedral has an organ of
/ four manuals, sixty eight registers, with ped
ais beginning at + instead of c, as the man
uals do. The great church organ in the Hal
berstadt cathedral, built by Schulze, has four
manuals, sixty five registers, and thirty-two
feet reed register in the great organ, the only
instance known in the world Eighteen of
no n tho modal Tho
| celebrated organ in the Benedictine monas-
| terry at Weingartin, is one of immense power.
1t was built by Gabelaar and is over a century
old. 1t contains four manuals, sixty-four
registers, and six thousand six hundred and
sixty-six pipes; when finished the menks
were so much pleased with it that they gave
the builder an additional form for each pipe.
1t has an unprecedented number of ranks of
| mixtures, there being one mixture of twenty
ranks, and others making thirty-six in the
great organ. also mixture in the choir of
twenty-one ranks, and ten ranks in the pedal
organ, there being in the whole organ ninety
five ranks Of mixtures, and plenty of drums,
bells and cymbals,
II 10 lIdLal uOus ~ iEJL " mani q SlCAl
and popular definition of a mixture. 1t is
register having several pipes, or ranks, as
pipes are tuned from one to three octaves
ADORE the foundation note of each key, to va
rious intervals which harmonic with that
foundation note, and are only used in the full
orUaD tn, 0i,-a b,.lI;aprv and ,Ia
whole. When they predominant, as they do
in this organ, the tone must be so shrill rs 10
be painful, and lack in solidity and grandeur.
The organ at Freiburg, about which so much
has been said, was built in 1884, by Aoise
Moser, and has four manuals, sixty lone reg
listers, and four thousand one hundred and
sixty-fve pipes. The draw-stops do not OPP
crate in the usual way, but slide to the right
and left. The case is Of dark walnut, elabor-
ately carved and gilded. The TOR humana
register i'll this organ is the most celebrated
one in the world. The Tours Cathedral pos
sesses an organ of great power having four
manuals and sixty registers, built by LIE Fevre
of Rouen. 1t has thirty-two feet register,
and mixture of fifteen ranks in the great
organ, and thirteen trumpet registers in the
whole work.
The wOrld-renowned organ in the Church
of St. Bavon, at HARLEM, was built in 1873,
by Christian Muller, and was nearly four
years in construction. 1t has three manuals,
sixty registers, and four thousand and eighty
eight pipes. The pipes are duplicated, and
the number of ranks in the mixtures increased
| as the scale ascends, to add strength TO the
upper part. With the exception of twenty
seven pipes subsequently added, all the pipes
in this organ are of metal, the front ones be-
ing of pure FURNISHED tin, the others of
composition Of equal parts of tin and lead.
The largest pipe is in the chief front tower
and is nearly forty feet long. The organ, in
GLIDING the case, cost about 900
The cathedral at Breslau contains three
organs, the largest of which has three man
uals, sixty registers, twelve bellows, and four
thousand seven hundred pipes. There Is one
at Muhlhausen of the same size, having fine
pedal organ of eighteen registers, and another
at Bremen of the same size, with thirty two
feet register in the great organ. There is an
organ at Nauruberg, built in 1880, of three
manuals, fitty-two registers, and another at
Antwerp built in 1910 by Terbruger, having
three manuals, 6tly-one registers, and aside
from its being very hard to play upon is con-
sidered fine instrument. There is an organ
at Goerlitz built by Casparini, OF three man
uals, fifty five registers, most of the pipes ex-
cepting the front ones being of wood con-
trast to the HARLEM organ, which proves the
superiority of metal for most registers. The
case shows two hundred and eighty pipes of
polished tin, the largest of which is tw enty-
four feet long.
This describes all of the noted church or
gans of Europe, having above fifty registers,
as nearly all of note have above that number.
Some peculiarities of European organs it may
be interesting to consider hereafter.
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