The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-02-17
THE LARGEST ORGAN
A Worlds Fair Attraction In
Festival Hall.
INSTRUMENT OF 10000 PIPES

The Great Pipe Organ Has One Hun.
dred and Forty Stops and Is as
Large as Brick BIock-can Pro-
duce over Seventeen Billion Dis
tnct Tones.
The largest organ in the universe,
thunder tones, is the unparalleled at
traction of the Hall of Festivals at the
Worlds Fair.
1t is an instrument capable of pro-
ducing 17,179, S69, 1888 distinct tonal eff
fects, a continuous performance that
would last $4,000 years, il different
one of these combinations we're
drawn every minute in those cen
turtles of time.
This master melodian of the world
is not measurably greater, but super
latively the greatest, Titan of har-
mony ever wrought by the hand of
man.
The wonderful impressiveness OF
it's proportions and its overpowering
volume of sound are the least of its
remarkable achievements in the
realm of instrumental music. That
its thousands of pipes sound the pro
foundest depths of the grand passions
as easily as the wind stirs leaves to
fairy cadences, is an infinitessimal
part of its accomplishments.
Efforts 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 woodward instruments of
the full band are contained within its
vast compass.
Large as brick block, 81 feet long
40 feet high and 33 feet wide, and pos
sessing 140 stops, 2S9 movements and
10,059 pipes, it overshadows the most
famous instrument OF Christendom.
1t cost approximately 100000. Only
the master musicians may command
its marvellous volubility.
Two electric motors, each of 10
horse power, drive this factory If
sound, the construction of which re-
quired 100000 feet of lumber and 115
miles Of wire. The metal pipes alone
consumed 10000 pounds of zinc and
5000 pounds of soft metal; its WOOD
en- pipes contain $4,000 feet Of CaH
fcrlia sugar pine.
The two pipes drawing the lowest
tones are each 32 feet long; two good
sized men, side by side, or a small
pony can pass through them. A train
of 10 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 i'm.
mense instrument in the Town Hall
at Sydney, New South Wales. The
Australian giant has 1913 stops as com
pared with the 140 stops OF the
Worlds Fair champion.
The next organs in rank are those
of the cathedral at Riga, Russia, with
four manuals and 124 stops Albert
Hall, London, four manuals, 100
stops; Garden City, L. l., four man
uals and lis stops; Chicago Auditor
ium, four manuals and Ill stops;
Leads Town Hall, England, four man
uals and 40 stops; Seville, Spain,
three manuals and 10 stops; st. Sui
pice, Paris, five manuals and 100
stops; St. George 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 engin-
cry, electrical mechanism and wind
pressure: The first, or great organ;
the second, or choir organ; the third,
or swell organ; the fourth, or solo
organ, and the fifth, or echo organ.
The echo organ alone is IS feet wild
II feet high and 10 feet deep. It has
a special bellows u feet long by for-
feet wide, operated by a motor Of one
and one-half horse power.
The five organs can be automatical.
ly played at one time by a double
roll self-performing attachment, on
separate console or key desk This
arrangement draws out the tremend-
Gus power and beauty, a feat utterly
beyond the range of human fingers.
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