Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-11-26

Pe-H's.Ss''
as the wind stirs leaves to fairy ca
dences is an infinitessimal part Of its
accomplishments.
Effects never heard outside the
grand orchestra until the manufacture
of this colossus, places its expressive
4 powers far In advance of other organs.
All of the wood-wind instruments of
the full band are contained within its
vast compass.
Large as brick block, sixty-two
feet long, forty feet high and thirty
three feet wide, and possessing 40
stops, 239 movements and 10,059 pipes,
It overshadows the most famous In
struments of Christendom. 1t cost APP
/ proximately 100000 Only the mas
ter musicians may command it's mar
Vicious yolubility
Two electric motors, each of ten
horse power, drive this factory of
sound. the construction of which re-
quired 100000 feet of lumber and us
miles OF wire. The metal pipes alone
consumed $4,000 pounds of zinc and
5000 pounds of soft metal; it's wooden
sugar pine.
The two pipes drawing the lowest
tones are each thirtytwo feet long;
two good-sized men, side by side. or d
small pony can pass thru 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 tina.
| even approaches this one is the i'm
/ mense instrument in the town hall at
Sydney. New South Wales. the master
j piece of famous English builders. The
Australian giant has 12s stops as COM
pared with the 140 stops of the worlds
fair champion.
| The next organs in rank are those
/ in the cathedral at Riga. Russia, with
four manuals and 124 stops: Albert
hail. London. four manuals and 100
stops; Garden City. l.. l., four manu-
ais and lis stops; Chicago Auditorium,
four manuals and Ill stops; Leeds
town hail, England, four manuals and
ITO stops; Seville, Spain. three manu-
ais and no stops: ST Sulpice. 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 are combined
within this enormous mass of machin-
cry, electrical mechanicism wind pres
sure: the first or great organ: the sec
ond, or choir organ; the third or swell
organ: the fourth or solo organ, and
the fifth or echo organ. The echo or
gan alone. Is is feet wide. II feet high
and 10 feet deep. 1t has a special bel
lows. operated by motor of one and
one-half horse power.
Fiev organs can be automatically
played at one time by double roll, |
performing attachment, on sep
arate console or key desk. This ar
rangement draws out the tremendous
power and beauty of the Ave organs.
feat utterly beyond the range of
human fingers.
A movable console or key desk. the
only one in the United States. SERVES
the organst in playing the great or
gan. His fingers must command five
manuals or key boards, making flight |
of five stairs. This console, which is
movable. Is connected to the organ by
an electric cable $50 feet long. When
seated before the instrument the mu
stefan must dominate the five manual
stairs, the 140 draw stops knobs five
tremolant draws, and thirty-six ciuple I
draws. the forty-six push buttons be-
longing to the adjustable combination
system, end all the feet levers controll-
ing the expressive powers OF the organ.
The second, or self-playing console,
is stationary. Through the agency of
the stationary key desk the GREATEST
symphony orchestra scores can be
played verbatum. without having to re-
duce the scope of the composition to
bring it within the range of human
fingers. AS an illustration of its super
human compass it may be said that ii
as full orchestration would call for ten
fingers on each hand, the automatic de-
vice can perform it just as easily as
any smaller number. A double touch.
used in this connection, never has been
heard before, producing effects precise
ly the same as If the organist had four
hands, two of which were playing full
harmony scores on one manual, while |
the other two were performing state
ly theme on the full organ.
The most sudden and subtle changes
of tenality are instantly commanded
by the double touch. A slightly in
creased pressure on the keys by the
fingers of the virtuoso, will aid the
voices of any stops drawn from the
expressive division of the instrument,
an addition that can be made to any
note or group of notes under the fling
ers. It is a mechanical expedient OBJ
tanned in no existing organ in the Unit
ed States, and in no first class concert
organ in the world.