The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-13

Through the agency of the stationary key desk the
greatest symphony orchestra scores can be played
verbatim without having to reduce the scope of the
composition to bring it within the range of human
fingers AS Illustration of its superhunan compass
it may be said that if full orchestraton would call
for ten fingers each hand the automatic device
perform just as easily as any smaller number.
A double touch, used in this connection, has never
been heard before producing effects precisely
as if the organst had four hands two OF which were
playing full harmony manual, while the
other two were performing stately theme on the full
organ.
The most sudden of subtitle changes of tenaIity are
instantly commanded by the double touch slightly
increased pressure the keys by the fingers Of the
virtuoso VIII add the voices of any stops drawn from
the expressive division Of the instrument addition
that be made to any note Of notes under
no existing in the United States and in first
In it's mechanical ntricacies the most marvellous
of Instruments presents the highest types of organ
building Five swell boxes enclosing the several or
combined in instrument, required $500 feet
of sugar pine. five automatic electrical swell engines
operate the shutters OF these boxes 5OO open circuits
the various parts, motor generator supply
ing the storage batteries is arranged to permit the
playing of the organ continuously through the entire
period of the exposition. An immense switchboard
will show the voltage and strength Of the batteries
at all times; an ammeter will show the amount of
current being used; a polarity indicator viii tell
whether the polarity is right and pilot lamp VIII
indicate to certain extent the strength of the batter
les There Lo6 automatic knobs for setting eombina-
tiOns throughout the organ and the instrument
tains 1900 magnets for both the keys and draw stop
action
Five bellows, each measuring p feet long by
feet vide are operated by the two ten horse power
motors of 90 volts and furnish the wind pressure
which distributed the l4O speaking
159 pipes through wind chests: bellows reguat
consumed 5000 feet and the wind trunks addi-
tionaI 1000 feet.
The organ consists Of two departments manual and
pedal commanded respectively by the hands feet
OF the performer The manual department comprised
of 10 speaking stops and S.907 pipes of metal and
wood, is controlled by five claviers keyboards of
81 keys each. The five claviers command the five
separate divisions organs. The pedal organ is the
largest and most complete in the world. It is pro-
Vided with all the leading varieties of what techn
cally known the unimitative and initiative
furnishing appropriate bases for all classes Of musical
combinations ThirtysiX couplers when Joined to the
pedal keyboard produce twenty-eight different
lations There eight pedal organ couplers, eleven
unison couplers, seven suboctave couplers and
octave Couplsrs-an array of cOupers before
approached in any
Thirteen speaking stops in the first subdivision
Of the great form the foundation tone of the
entire instrument It's second subdivision including
the three important reed stops, is capable of multiply
ing the tonaI effects tenfold.
The third Swell organ introduces for the time
the true orchestral element from which the worlds
fair organ derives its advanced position among the
great concert organs II possesses the nutes pecolo
clarinet oboe di bassete fagotto and contra
getto the horn and violin. besides the human voice
Another division of the Swell has counterpart.
TO contains I2s1 pipes, everyone Of which string
Nearly all of these pipes made pure tin.
It is claimed By the inventor. W. B. Fleming, that
the orchestral effects which be produced by this
division Of the instrument win transcend everything
hitherto possible the largest organ.
division is represented By the Colo
organ Here placed such stops az the orchestral
flute. orchestral clarinet orchestral trumpet, bass
trombone tuba and bass tuba.