The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-29

mastodon of melody, speaking in thun- der tones, is the unparalleled attraction of the hall of festivities at the Worlds fair
 It is an instrument capable of produc- ing 17179SS5,1s3 distinct tonal effects. continuous performance that would last B, 600 years, if a different one of these combinations were drawn every minute in those centuries of time.
 This master rielodian of the world is not measurably greater but superlatively the greatest Titan of harmony ever wrought by the hand of man. It gives voice to whole effects and countless tone coloring never approxmated by any other grand organ.
 The wonderful impressiveness of its proportions and it's overpowering volume of sound are the least of its remarkable achievements in the realm of instru- mental music That it's thousands of pipes sound the profoundest depths of the grand passions as easily as the wind stirs leaves to fairy cadences, is an in- finitessimal part of it's accomplishments.
 Expressive Powers.
 Effects never heard outside the grand orchestra until the manufacture of this colossus places it's expressive powers far in advance of other organs All of the wood wind instruments of the full band are contained within it's vast compass.
 Large as a brick block, siXty-two feet long, forty feet high and thirty-three feet wide and possessing 140 stops, 2S9 movements and 10,O59 pipes it overshad- ows the most famous instruments of Christendom. It cost approximately $1OO,- GOO. Only the master musicians may com mand it's marvellous volubility.
 Two electric motors, each ten horse power, drive this factory of sound, the construction of which required 100000 feet of lumber and 115 miles of wire The metal pipes alone consumed l6,0OO pounds of zinc and 5000 pounds or soft metal; its wooden pipes contain S5,0OO feet of California sugar pine.
 The two pipes drawing the lowest tones are each thirty-two fet long; two good sized men, side by side, or a small pony can pass through them. A train of ten cars is needed to transport the monster from Los Angeles, Cal. to St. Louis.
 The only organ in the world that even approaches this one is the immense in- strument in the town hall at Sydney, New South Wales, the masterpiece or famous English builders The Australian giant has 12S stops as compored with the 40 stops of the Worlds fair champion.
 Next in Rank.
 The next organs in rank are those in the cathedral at Riga, Russia, with four manuals and 124 stops; Albert hall, Lon don, four manuals and 1O9 stops; Garden City l.. l., four manuals ana 1l5 stops; Chicago auditorium, four manuals and III stops Leads town hall, England, four manuals and 110 stops; Seveille, Spain, three manuals and no stops; St. Suppice, Paris five manuals and 100 stops; St. Georges hall, Liverpool four manuals and 100 stops, and Ulm cathedral, four manuals and 100 stops.
 Five Separate Organs. Five separate organs are combined with this enormous mass of enginery, electrical mechanism and wind pressure; the first of great organ the second or cholr or gan; the third or swell organ; the fourth or solo organ and the fifth or echo or gan. The echo organ alone is eighteen feet wide seventeen fee high and ten rect deep. It has a special bellows twelve rect long by four feet wide, operated by motor of one and one-half horse power.
  at one time by a double roll self-per- forming attachment on a separate con sole or key desk This arrangement draws out the tremendous power and beauty or the five organs, a feat utterly beyond the range of human fingers.
 A movable console or key desk, the only one in the United States, serves the organist in playing the great organ. His fingers must command five manuals or key boards, making flight of five stairs. This console which is movable, is con- nected to the organ by an electric cable 15O feet long When seated before the instrument the musician must dominate the five manual stairs, the 140 draw stops knobs five tremolent draws and thirty six couple draws, the forty-siX push but tons belonging to the adjustable combina- ton system and all the rect levers con trolling the expressive powers of the whole organ.
 Second Console.
 The second or self-playing console is stationary. Through the agency of the stationary key desk the greatest sym phony orchestra scores can be played verbatim without having to reduce the scope of the composition to bring It wltf- in the range of human fingers. As an illustration of it's superhuman compass it may be said that if full orchestration would call for ten fingers on each hand the automotic device can perform 1t just as easily as any smaller number double touch used in this connection, has never been heard before producing effects precisely the same as if the or ganist had four hands, two of which were nlaying full harmony scores on one man nal while the other two were performing stately theme on the full organ.
 The most sudden and subtle changes or