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| previous combinatlons) the organ In 81.
Georges Church, Doncaster, England,
which was built by Schultze, of Paulin.
zelle, in Thuringia, and has eighty.six
registers. twenty-five being in the pedal
| (some OF the latter are not real registers,
but begin on the second c of another stop
OF an octave lower nominal pitch, the up.
per notes being supplied by additional
| pipes) the organ in the Leeds (England)
| Town Hall, and the organ in the Church
of Notre Dame, St. Oner, restored By
Cavaille. Coli in 1850. containing fifty COM
plete registers, sixty eight draw-stops,
thirteen combination pedals, and a total Of
T 1924 pipes. The restoration of this organ
cost IS, 900 francs.
THE CELEBRATED ORGAN
At the Church of St. Sulpice, Paris, was,
previous to its rebuilding, the largest organ
in the world. 1t had five manuals, and, 1t
is said, one hundred and FIVE registers,
though this is disputed. 1t was rebuilt,
AID row contains four manuals and sixty
six registers. The organ IN the Royal
Panoptlcon of Science and Art, ia Lsices-
ter Square, London, which was destroyed
by fire year OF two ago, had four manuals,
sixty registers and 4, 004 pipes. The wind
was suppilSQ NY otA DSiAOhb VI CIV
pressure, worked by steam. Tue most re-
markable feature of this oTgaa was its du-
plicate manuals of the swell, choir and solo
organs, on each side OF the eiil.f tier OF
manuals, so az to allow of several perform.
ers playing the organ simultaneously. This
was the only instance of so many manuals,
ten in all, being applied to one Instrument.
THE LARGEST ORGAN NOW IN LONDON
Is the one in the Royal Albert Hail. which
was built by Henry Willis in 1871 and
opened in July of that year by w. T. Best.
The organ is 20 feet in hight ard 60 in
| width. l. contains Ill drsw-stops, be-
sides fourteen additional combinations OF
manuals and pedals, four manuals and two
and one-half octaves of psdals. The grand
organ in the Cathedral of Mecklen burg
was oailE in 1870 by Ladergast, Of Weis-
senfels. 1t has four manuals and eighty
four draw-stops. There are four 32-feet
registers in this organ, three being Ill the
pedal, and fif5een l6 feet registers. Toe
pipes number 5, 235, of which 4, 1872 are of
metal, 96S OF wood, and IS are blind pipes.
THREE MANUAL ORGANS
Are very numerous, and really afford suffi-
cient scope and variety for all kinds of mu-
sic, unless, perhaps, where orchestral eff.
fects are sought to be obtained. The usual
division of manuals in thrse-manual or
gan is alto, great, swell and choir. As in
the case of the four manual organs, Europe
contains macy examples of three manual
organs of great power, beauty and variety.
Among the best known are the following !:
The organ in the Colosseum, in Regents
Park, London, containing forty. seven regis
tiers, a set of kettledrums, cymbals, tri-
angles and storm effects, the whole being
under the control of one performer; the
organ in st. Denis Church, Paris, built by
Csvailie Coll in 1884 40, containing sixty
nine registers, the upper pipes being blown
| by stronger pressure, on the principle
| that wind instrument players exert a
greater pressure on the muscles of the
lungs when producing the higher sounds
! lat that time this was
THE LARGEST AND MOST COMPLETE ORGAN
In Francs) the organ in the Church Of st.
Bavon, HARLEM, built in 1873 by Chris
tian Muller, containing 60 registers, in
which the pipes are duplicated and the
number of the ranks in the mixtures in.
creased as the scale aacends. to add
strength and briilisncy to the upper part
with the exception of p pipes subsequently
added, all the pipes of this organ are of
metal, the front ones being of pure bur-
nished tin, the others of composition of
| equal parts OF tin and lead the organ in
ST. PauPs Church, at Frsnkfurt-am. Main,
considered very fine one, built by Walck-
er, containing "a registers and II pairs of
bellows the two organs in the cathedral
at Seville, one on each side Of the choir,
each containing II registers the
organ in St. Michael's Church, Ham,
burg, built by Hldebrand, containing II
registers the largest of the three organs
in the cathedral at Breslap, containing 60
| registers that in Nuhlhausen, also con-
tanning 60 registers, Is of which ara in the
pedal and still another Of the same size
at Bremen, containing q 80 feet stop in
the great organ /; one at hamburg, built
in 1880, with 30 registers and one at
Antwerp, with 81 registers, the latter
built by Terbruger in 1910; and one at
Goerlitz, built by Casparini, having So
registers, the majority of tine pipes being
of wood, In direct contrast with the Haar-
lem organ in this respect.
THE BUILDERS
| OF many Of these organs are unknown, but
the principal ones now in that profession
are Walcker, of Germany; Hill and Willis,
of England, and Cavaille Coll, of Paris.
| Each of these has made many excellent
and first.clsss Instruments, which have
| given them both fame and profit. These
men have devoted their lives to their work,
and look upon organ. building both as a
science and an art Each is the inventor of
various improvements bearing on the quail
ity of tone, as well as mechanical appli-
anoes.
AMERICAN CONCERT HALL ORGANS.
In America the number of large organs
is as yet limited, and only within the last
twenty years has it been considered that an
organ was suitable for any place but a
church. but with the opening of the Boston
Music Hall organ, November 2, 1868, new
use was made for this noble instrument in
this country. Since then number of large
organs have been erected in concert halls,
first of which stands, not only in time. but
in size, power, beauty and variety, the
Boston organ. The Cincinnati organ, in
augurated in May, 1878 justly stands sec,
ond, and some enthusiastic Cincinnatians
have even claimed the frat place for their
organ, but this claim is uDfounded, as will
be shown further on. Following these two
come the organs in Steinway and CHECKER.
ing Halls, in this city. Both the Boston
and Cincinnati organs were built by asso.
Citations organized for that purpose, but the
latter two were the result of individual
mercantile enterprise.
THE BOSTON ORGAN
Was built by Walcker, whose reputation
was made by 80 many fine instruments in
Europe. The association which provided
Boston with this grand organ was organ
lied in 1852, and on the evening of Novem.
Der ooh, of that year, the first concert for
the fund was given in the Music Hail. No.
vember, 1855, the first proposition for the
scheme of the organ was formulated. In
March, 1856, a subscription list was opened,