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

The following description of the gigantic in
written for the Cleveland Plain Dealer by T. r. NJ
Lakers as a reporter on The Herald The articl
THE largest organ in the universe a rastodon Of
melody speaking in thunder tones is the un-
paralleled attraction Of the hall of festivals at
the worlds fair.
1t is an instrument capable Of producing 17179s6s
$50 distinct tonaI effects continuous performance
that would last S26 years if different of these
combinations were drawn every minute in those cen
turtles Of time.
This master melodian of the world is not measur-
ably but superlatively the greatest Titan Of
harmony ever wrought by the hand of man. It gives
voice to whole effects and countless tone cooring never
appropriated by any other grand organ.
The wonderful mpressiveness of it's proportions and
its overpowerng volume Of sound the least of its
remarkable achievements in the realm of instrumental
music That its thousands Of pipes sound the pro-
foundes depths of the grand passions easily the
wind strs leaves TO fairy cadences is inntesmal
part Of its accomplishments.
Effects never heard outside the grand orchestra
until the manufacture of this colossus places its ex
pressive powers far in advance Of other organs. All
of the wood wind instruments of the fun band
contained within its vast compass.
Large a brick block. 50 feet long, 40 feet high and
3S feet wide and possessing 1o stops 23 movements
and 1005s pipes, it overshadows the most famous in
struments Of Christendom. II approximately
100000 Only the master musicians may command
its marvellous vOlubility.
Two electric motors each of horse power drive
this factory of sound, the construction of which
qured 100000 feet of lumber and 15 miles of wire The
pipes consumed $4,000 pounds of zinc and
5000 pounds soft metal: its wooden pipes contain
IS 600 feet Of California sugar pine.
The two pipes drawing the lowest tones each
90 feet long; two good sized men side by side or
small pony pass through them. train of ten
needed to transport the monster from Los An
geIes, Cal. to st. Louis.
The only organ in the world that even approaches
this is the immense instrument in the town hall
Sydney. New South Wales, the masterpiece of fam
GUS English builders. The Australian giant has lbs
stops compared with the 14O stops of the worlds
fair champion.
The next organs I'm rank those in the cathedral
Riga. Russia with manuals and 124 stops; Albert
hail. London, manuals and 115 stops; Chicago audi
torium 4 manuals and II stops; Leeds town hail.
England. manuals and 40 stops; Seville. Spain,
manuals and 10 stops; St Sulpice Paris manuals
and 100 stops and Tim cathedral, manuals and 100
stops
Five separate organs combined within this
enormous enginery, electrical mechanism and
wind pressure the first great organ; the sound
choir organ: the third swell organ: the fourth
solo organ the fifth echo organ. The echo
organ alone is eighteen feet wide seventeen feet high
feet deep. tt has a special bellows twelve
feet long by four feet wide operated by motor Of
one and One-han horsepower.
Five organs can be automatically PLAYED a time
by a double roll sef-perfOrning attachment a sep
arate console key desk. This arrangement draws
the tremendous power and beauty OF the five
gans, a feat utterly beyond the range Of human fin
gers
A movable console or key desk. the only one in the
United States the organist in playing the great
organ His fingers must command five manuals or
key boards, making flight OF FIVE stairs This con-
sole which Is movable, is connected to the organ by
electric cable $50 feet long. When seated before
the instrument the musician must dominate the 8
manual stairs the 14O draw stop knobs tremolant
draws and So couple draws, the as draw buttons be
longing the adjustable combination system and all
the feet levers controlling the expressive powers Of
the whole organ.
The second self-playing console IS stationary.