Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-02
LARGEST ORGAN INWORLD.
Mammoth Instrument of 10000 Pipes
 at the Worlds Fair.


 traction of the Hall of Festivals at the worlds fair.
 It Is an instrument capable of pro- ducing 17,179, ,S68,1 ,193 distinct tonal eHects, a continuous performance that would last years if a different one of these combinations were drawn every minute in those centuries of time.
 This master melodeon of the world is not measurably greater, but su- perlativel the greatest Titan of har- mony ever wrought by the hand of man.It gives voice to whole effects and countless tone coloring never ap- proximated by any other grand organ.
 The wonderful impressiveness of its proportions and it's overpowering , volume of sound are the least of It's remarkable achievements in the realm of instrumental music. That it's thousands of pipes sound the pro- foundest depths of the grand passions as easily as the wind sttrs leaves to fairy cadences, is an infinitesimal part of its accomplishments.
 Effects never heard outside the grand orchestra until the manufac- ture of this colossus, places it's ex- pressive powers far in advance of other organs. All of the wood wind instruments of the full band are con tained within its vast compass.
 Large as brick block, 62 feet long, 1 40 feet high and 33. feet wide and pos sessing 40 stops, 239 movements and 10.059 pipes, 1t overshadows the most famous instruments of Ghristendom. It costs approximately $100,OOO. Only the master musicians may command it's marvellous volubility.
 | Two electric motors, each of ten horse power, drive this factory of I sound, the construction of which re- quired 100000 feet of lumber and ll5 ! miles of wire. The metal pipes alone consumed 16,OOO pounds, Of zinc and 1 5000 pounds of soft metal; its wooden pipes contain 35,OO0 feet of California sugar pine.
 The two pipes drawing the lowest 1 tones are each Ithirty-two feet long; two good sized men, side by side, or l small pony, can pass through them. l A train of ten cars is needed to trans- 1 port the monster from Los Angeles, l 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 l Sydney, New South Wales, the mas. I terpiece of famous English builders The Australian giant has 12S stops as l worlds fair champion.
 1 The next organs in rank are those in the cathedral at Riga, Russia, with 1 four manuals and 124 stops: Albert hall. London, four manuals, 109 stops 1 Garden City, L.. l., four manuals, 11s 1 stops; Chicago auditorium, four man uals, Hi stops; Leads town hall, Eng land. four manuals, no stops; Seville Spain. three manuals, no stops; S' l Sulpice. Paris, five manuals, 100 stops St Georges hall, Liverpool, four man l uaIs. 100 stops and Ulm cathedral four manuals, 100 stops.
 ] Five separate organs are combine within this enormous mass of en l ginery. electrical mechanism and wind pressure, the first or great organ; thu I second. or choir organ; the third, o7 | swell organ; the fourth, or solo organ ] and the fifth, or echo organ. The 1 echo organ alone Is eighteen feet wide seventeen feet high and ten feet deep It has special bellows twelve fee long by four feet wide, operated by l motor of one and One-half horsa 1 power.
 Five organs can be altomaticall. l played at one time by double Tel l self-performing attachment, on 8 sep arate console or key desk. This ar l rangement draws out the tremendous power and beauty of the i've organs I feat utterly beyond the range O l human fingers.
 A movable console or key desk, tn only one, in the United States, serve the organist in playing the grea organ. His fingers must con1man, five manuals or key boards, making , flight of five stairs. This console ] which is movable. is connected to tn I organ by an electric cable 15O Icng When seated before the finstrun1en the musician must dominate the hvl manual stairs. the 40 draw stol knobs, five tremolant draws and tnlr l ty-six couple draws, the forty six pusl buttons belonging to the adJustab bl combination system and all the fee 1 levers controlling the expressive DOW | CTS of the whole organ.
 The second or self-playing consol is stationary. Through the agency o the stationary key desk the gTeates l symphony orchestra scores can b
 played verba tim without having to re duce the scope of the composition t I bring 1t within the range of hulnal fingers As an illustration of it's su perhuman compass it may be said tha if d full orchestration would call fo
 ten fingers on each hand the auto
 nafic device can perform it just a
 easily as any smaller number. A dou
 ble touch. used in this connection, ha
 never been heard before, producin
 effects precisely the same as if th j orgarist had four hands. two of whicI
 were playing full harmony scores ol
 one mammal while the other two wer
 performing a stately theme on the fu1
 organ.
 The most sudden and subtle change
 of tenality are instantly commands
 by the double touch A slightly it
 creased pressure on the keys by in
 fingers of the virtuoso will add tn
 voices of any stops drawn from tn
 expressive division of the instrumen
 an addition that can be made to an
 note or group of notes under the fir
 gers. It is mechanical expedient ob
 tained in no existing organ ill tn
 United States and in no first class COT
 cert organ in the world. In its mechanical intriacies tn ] most marvellous of instruments if Dre