The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-06-23
YiLES GREAT ORGAN.
Universitys New Instrument
Has Few Rivals.
NUMBER OF PIPES 1853

TOTAL NUMBER OF PIPES 4,588
some Of Them worth small For-
tune-rhose Of Thirty-tro Foot
pitch Cost From 500 10 $4,000 Per
stop : Instrument Given as Me-
mortal 20 john $. NewBerry.
one Of the greatest organs in the
world viii soon De dedicated to the
memory Of John s. Newberry, late Of
Detroit Mich, ia WooIsey bah Of
Yale university. says New Haven
dispatch to the New York Herald
The organ. which cost upward Of $780,
O0o. Is the gift Of Mrs. Helen H. New
berry, who gives it in memory Of her
husband An authority on organs has
said that the instrument Is one whose
power. dignity and grandeur Of tone
are not euualed BY any other organ in
America and is surpassed by but few
organs IN the world Professor sam
ueI S. Sanford and Professor Horatio
W. ParkeT Of the department Of music
in Yale have tried the organ aud are
delighted with its tonal qualities and
Its capabilities.
Set in the framework Of the grandly
proportional proscenium arch Of the
big memorial hall, with frieze Of
superb beauty and relieved by the
beautiful white ornamentation Of walls
ana gallery, the organ stands out in
splendid beauty The hall Is regarded
by many as one Of the most classic
and artistic academic buildings in the
world.
The organ Is ito feet wide, 25 feet
deep and 40 feet high The in
strument is composed Of great or
gan, swell organ, choir organ, solo
| organ. pedal organ taugmentedl, be-
sides having eouplers, adjustable COM
binations and pedals, all of which are
decided improvements upon instru-
ments which up to d few years ago
were considered the acme and the won
der of the organ builders art. The or
| gan mas some az the largest scaled and
heaviest weighted diapasons Of any in
Il strunlent constructed Ii has five wind
pressures varying from three and a
4 half inches TO twenty two inches. The
organ win contain the first double
tonaued reed stop ever built in the
4 United States The reeds ia the great
and swell organs are voiced at ten
] inches wind pressure and the tube
sonora iii the solo organ at twenty two
inches. The gravissima OF sixty-four
feet is counterpart Of the great Hope
Jones organ. which is ID the Worees-
ter England cathedral
Effort has been made to represent
Il the majesty and the grandeur Of the
/ instrument itself in the console, OK key
desk III the organ. The key desk Is
about i've feet wide four feet deep
ana I'VE and half feet high. The
player Is conveniently surrounded by
lie stop knobs The curve is soIne-
what similar iii arrangement to tie
keyboard Of the famous organ Of the
ST. Sulpice III Paris, The eoupiers
are oscillating. and tie pedal board has
every radical improvement IF dip.
spread ana i difficult and costly push.
Cireassian walnut Is the material out
of which tie case at the keyboard Is
constructed. handsomely carved and
highly polished.
Tile NeWberry organ contains q
thirty two foot open diapason. These
pines are thirty two feet long and two
and half feet III diameter and are
made without i screw Of nail Any
thing 81 metallic character would
change the vibrations and alter the
quality 81 the tone. Some idea Of the
immensely OF tie organ may be gath
cred from tile fact that one Of these
large pipes weighs more than 1000
pounds The smallest pipe on the
other hand. Is q delicate little one
weighing i fraction of an ounce and
less than half All inch III length.
While Professor Sanford was travel
ing in Europe last summer be found
iii d large organ which was being con
strueted iii Gloucester England ca
thedral new coupler, unison of, q
reproduction Of which he caused % be
adopted by the builders Of the New
berry organ. This means that when
the sub and super couplers are on the
unison. Or middle note. does not speak
Musicians say that this will add great,
" to the number of effects which can
be produced In the organ,
There ire 3,064 pipes IN stops OF over
d four foot pitch In the Newberry or
gan. The total number Of pipes ~ ing
organ Is ASS. Some Of the pipes cost
& small fortune Those Of thirty two
foot pitch cost from S700 "a 5000 PEI
stop, the sixteen foot pitch, from s4ot
to 500; tile eight foot, from 5000 S
S4e0. stops Of five and four tooi
pitch cost about $50 and two foot
stops S100
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