The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-19
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Tho New Organ at she Cathedral.


fashionable and critical assemblage, aud the
exhibition OF its merits afforded much pleasure
and satisfaction.
The construction OF the instrument is neat
and becoming in design, and accords well with
the architectural beauty of the noble building
In which it is placed. The case Is some 81 feet
wide, 16 deep, and Al feet high from the floor
of the organ gallery to the top of the cross
which rests on q earyatic figure. The front Of
the case is supported by four magnificent pilas
ters and two huted pillars of the Corinthian
order, whilst the ornamental gilt pipes are
handsomely arranged in their construction, the
ceutre ones being semi-cy aud neat
as to both workmanship and location. The
color of the case is white, whilst its general
appearance is of an imposing and demon strative
character.
The builders OF this organ already have an
exalted and deserved reputation for the excel
lence of their instruments, those of st. Gle
ments Episcopal and st. Patrick's Catholic
churches having contributed thereto not
little; but In the construction OF the present
organ they have besto we'd an unusual amount of
attention and care, which has resulted in the
production of an instrument rejecting on them
the highest credit, and which promises TO give
great satisfaction.
The organ has four manuals, each from &C to
A, So keys and pedals, CCC to r, 20 keys. In
the whole organ there are at present 3l55
speaking pipes, with room for 58 additional ones
in the solo organ, aud 80 sounding stops, of
OF which thirty y-nine are of metal and eleven of
wood. There is also one tremulant. Tue stops
aud number OF pipes possessed by each may by
analytically sub-divided amongst the several
organs as follows:-
Gredt Organ.-Double open diapason, 16 feet
all metal, SO pipes; open diapason, violin
(conical, with bells), dulcssma (dtto), and
trumpet, each feet, of metal, and having SO
pipes Principal octave violin, twelfth and
fifteenth, each Of metal, and SO pipes Sesqui-
altera, four ranks fifteenth, seventeenth, nine
teenth, and twenty-second), metal, making in
the aggregate 232 pipes for this STOP with 178
in the mixture, ranks (twenty-second, twenty
| sixth, and twenty-ninth), So in the stopped
diapason and traverse flute, both wood, and SO
IN the melodeon, feet, all wood, with inverted
mouths TO F, and playing the lowest five stopped
pipes. This makes Is stops and 1859 pipes in
the great organ. Many of the stops possess
peculiar and novel beauty, which, combined
with proper pedal fundam IN tai bass, prod uce
grand effects.
The Choir Organ.-The choir organ contains
an open diapason, viol d'amour dulciana,
principal chimney flute, twelfth, fifteenth,
seventeenth, sesquialiera, two rank (nineteenth
aud twenty-second), clarionet, and bassoon,
each of metal, and posses sing So pipes, except.
ing the dulcana, which has 55, the clarlouet 48,
and the Bassoon 10. The Dulciana is especially
pleasing, and plays the 10 west five viol 'am our
pipes, which latter stop is coucal and with bells.
The total number of pipes in the choir organ
therefore, is 749, and the stops II, of which we
have omitted to mention the two of wood,
bourbon, l6 feet, aud Slapped diapason, 3 feet,
both very fine.
The !Saoea Orgdn.-Iu the swell organ are Sl2
pipes subdivided amongst the folio wing l3 stops,
which for sweetness aud beauty of tone are
indeed superb, and when combined, as last
night, Ey organists OF distinction, their resplen-
dent merits are especially sho wn TO advantage.
open diapason kalophone (cooical and bells),
principal, vox humana, twelfth, fifteenth,
seventeenth, sesquialtera, two rauks) niEe-
teenth and twenty-seconi), OBOE with ba5soon
bass) and trumpet. These are all of metal, aud
have IS pipes each. The bourbon ZIG feet tone),
the stopped diapason (eisht fee), and the
flute are of wood. The vos humana is the
best we have ever heard, and is worthy OF
especial mention. The Tremulant, above re-
ferred to, is placed in the well organ.
SOTO Orgdn-The solo organ is the most
recent acquisition we have in modern organ
construction, and useful and brilliant adjunct
it is. The present contains a stopped
diapasop, feet tone, with double mouths,
orchestral oboe and corno di basetto, trumpet,
clarionet and bassoon, and harmonic, each
containing 90 pipes, and being of superior
quality of tone.
Pedat Orgdn.-The pedal is composed as fol-
lows:-Double open diapason, 16 feet, wood,
holes ind slides; double dulcana, l6 feet, wood: /:
open diapason, 8 feet, metal, and trombone, l6
feet, metal, each having 20 pipes, making in the
aggregate in the pedal organ, las, and IN the
entire instrument, as Individually described in
the foreg going, 1855.
The GOup ers are as folows:- Great and swell
| unison; great and solo, unison; choir to great
| sub-octaves; swell TO choir unison; pedals aud
| great; pedals and choir. There are in addition
| composition pedals for great organ, convenient
shifting movements, and every modern conve-
nience. There ale two bellows with pressure
of 81 and Al inches, the last supplying the pedal
and solo organs.
1t will be seen from the foregoing ANALYSIS
that the organ is complete in all its details; aud
| 1t was, therefore, not at all surprising to find
| congregated within the Cathedral last night
large audience. including musical connoisseurs
| musicians, and vocalists of eminence, and
| others feeling an interest and anxiety to hear
| the tones Of the fine instrument. Right Rev.
| Bishop Wood and his clergy entered the sactu-
airy punctually at O'Clock. and the programme
| then at dad uit