El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-04-22
THE GREATEST ORGAN IN THE WORLD.


the instrument.
Tae organ has five manuals, or key
DO ards, each manual having 81 keys,
and the psd4l box has 80 pedals
There are rs speaking stops as fol-
lows: % IN the gre 1T organ, "A n the
swell organ, 20 in the choir organ, 20
n the 90 organ, In the echo organ,
% in the pedal organ. There a~e 9I27
pipes, five OF which are 81 fit, and there
is one of 81 fl Toere are ats,. pc ial
mechanical acce ssories, 30 buttons and
Il coupler5. A the air vibrations in
e 81 1T pipe are but Is per second,
The sound can not be heard unless some
o her p pc in harmonic sym pathy is
sound NJ With it. The Sydney organ
Bzst OF Liverpool, and until recently
the city organist has been August
Wiegand a member of the college of
music 10 London.
The following letter in the Musical
Courier is worth careful reading, she'd
ding new and valuable light in the
war against the foreign opera singers:
The writer says:
Perhaps IL isn't generally known to
the Musical public of America that
orchestras in Germany have sung or
played certain number of years
Lweaty, [ believe it is-they are pen
sioneI off. All the opera houses, con-
servatorles, ~, are under government
protection. All are subsidized by mon
ey from the crown. Like the Eta olish-
ed Church of England, where it is
Church and State, it is Established
Music in Germany, emusic and State,'
ard the faithful state musicians, who
have done good service, like army and
navy veterans, are retired and PEN
stoned off. Thus it is a prudent, as
well as a 4 easy matter when a singer
has sung his or her part well for
twenty years, when the glory aud
fame are gained and these singers are
retired, pens.oned off, aud no longer
ell gible for the German stage,
worn voices to this co lntry and soothe
their hurt vanity with the salve Amer
lean dollars TRe gold cure,' that is
su h an excellent tonlc for worn vocal
cards
'Of course these singers, though no
longer engaged for the German stage,
often have sttll powerful voices, what
ever they m ~ la k in sweetness, and
by special INV. anon they are oc casiOn-
ally Deird in their once famous roles
Munich pension d tn, Vogsls vars
ago, 20 they promptly cama TO Ameri-
w i'i liz gnu III z. IlS.T L iScneF
was pensloneu In Dresden, s., he kind
~ assures trusting Americans lat he
loves this Country better, that he no
long viii consent TO sing in Dresden,
but viii LAVISH his costly voice on US.
''Oh, 'Jacay had good reason when
he would not eat his supper'-and
Herr Fischer VII not sing in Dresden.
| understand that Madame Lehman
his not ung in opera IN Germany for
five years: soe stLg by inv talon at
B.yreutu, and LOW ste slug5 A Song
O'S XpenCe With lvrr tones here for
u, Who ar: so musical thar, given the
name, III, notes don't count.
"rell M, kin. ly Musical Courier,
must we alwoys have worn Italian
voice.? Must we Ike p on paying high
price for red and reJIred German
siuge",? II I've wa no fresh. young,
Ira cd American voices or don't we
know enough Of mu-ic to recognize
them wuen we do hear them?
ga LISTENER"
The Courier aids eiit ri lily: 1--WE
can 90 Aouders with American voices,
provi Ell III Y can awatttne reV"luiioa
I 'rAjs d, l-idd 20 viii be removed. and
then me American voice will have a
fair ii I'd with the foreign. If we have
4 no artistic instincts in this country,
why is 1T that al! foreign artists are
Anxious 10 ,ne here, aud Why Is It
that alter all thes, ye rs they have
Jailed to slplsat witai. Us the ssussie