Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-09-05
Organ Papers-No. 3.

Organ Papers-NO. 3.
Since it is hard to agree upon common
! measure of the size of organs, it is hardly
| possible in describing the large organs of the
/ world, to say which is really the largest; for
one OF fifty registers might, by the superiority
| OF those registers, equal another having sew
enty-fve; and of two organs having the same
number of pipes, one might be thrice as eff
fective as the other on account of better po-
sition, or superior mechanical appliances.
Leaving the concert organs, our own in
cluded, for Il more minute description hereat
ter, brief notice of the celebrated cathedral
and church organs of the world, will be given
The organ in the Munster at Ulm is prob
ably the largest cathedral orgsn in the world.
Ii was built by Walckler, the builder of the
Boston Music Hall organ, and has four manu-
ais, and one hundred registers, which is eley-
en- more Ihaa the Boston organ; and as they
are alike IN most other respects, the descrip-
ton of the latter hereafter may perhaps serve
! for both. The organ III st. Georges cathe-
! drIl, Doncaster, England stands next, having
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built by Schultze in 1862.
The Marien Kirche at Lubbock has two or
gans, the larger of which mt the west end has
four manuals and eghty-two registers. 1t is
not known when this one was built, but the
other one built subsequently dates back to
1861. This was also built by Schulze, and if
long experience be worth any thing, the Don
caster organ of 1862 must be fine one! The
case is of dark walnut, magnifcently carved
and gilded and about eighty feet high and
forty wide, the front pipes being thirtytwo
feet high and nineteen inches in diameter,
made of pure FURNISHED tin. The beams that
support this organ are framed into the wall
behind, and the organ hangs pendant, with
most novel and elegant effect.
The organ in the St. Lawrence Cathedral at
Rotterdam, when completed, will stand next
to the one at Ulm. 1t now has four manuals,
and seventy-six registers, and is to have
ninety two registers. 1t now has five thou
sand seven hundred pipes, the longest, of
thirty-two feet, being placed in 'front.' The
organ in the York cathedral, England, built
by Elliot & Hill, has three manuals, eighty
registers, and eight thousand pipes. The
| largest pipes are of metal, thirty four feet
| high and four feet in diameter! The fine or
| gan in St. Paul's church, at Frankfort the
Main, was built by Walckler, and was the
organ that made for him his great reputation.
1t has three manuals, seventy-four registers,
and twelve bellows.
| Tourists extol the large organ in the Seville
cathedral for its magnitude and power. There
are several organs in the cathedral, the
largest two of which stand, sideways, one on
each side OF the choir and opposite each other.
The reed registers OF which there is an unex-
ampled number, are placed outsi le the organs
and project horizontally, in tiers from the sew
| eral fronts, the largest pipes, supported by
iron rods, being placed uppermost. The
mouths of the pipes are unprecedented
These each have three manuals and seventy
one registers, and although nominally of the
same size, the older Is the larger one. The
mode of blowing the bellows of this organ is
peculiar.
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walks back and forth along an inclined plane
of about fifteen feet in length which is bal
anced in the centre on its axis. Under each
end Is pair of bellows of about six feet by
| four They communicate with five other
pairs united by bar; passing ten times
along this plane fills all these belluws, and,
what is almost incredible, when they are full,
they supply the tull organ for fifteen minutes
| There is a great organ in the church of st.
| Dominica, at Prague, having four manuals,
seventy registers, eighteen of which are
for the Pedal. The organ in ST. MichaePs
church, Hamburg, built by IIildebrand, has
three manuals, seventy registers, and is sixty
feet high, and sixty wide, and almost a won
der, is so spacious that any pipe OF this great
work can be got at, without disturbing a sec
| ond one. The central front pipe is of pure
tin, thirty-fve feet high, weights nearly one
thousand pounds, and was cast in one sheet.
| There is placed over each large pipe wire
netting to keep the birds from building their
| nests inside.
The organ in St. Denis, Paris, is a particu-
larly fine one, built by Caraille Coli, the mos,
celebrated Of French builders, and has three
manuals ami sixty mine registers. The upper
pipes of this organ are blown by stronger
pressure, upon the principle that wind-instru-
ment players exercise greater pressure Of
the muscles upon the lungs when producing
acute sounds.
ERRATUM IN PAPER No. AT the twenty-sixth
line read, Each register has drapsfop, and will
only sound when this is drawn out, and these draw
stops the letter ed knobs seen ranged on each
side of the player
From the Upper Potomac.
HAMPERS FERRY, VA, Sept 3, 1868.
NeSSrS. Editors Most of the readers of
the ancient SPY, who are interested in the
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