West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1908-02-06
CAMP MEETING ORGAN
Worlds Most Powerful Instru.
mentoFor Ocean Grove.
HoPE-JoNEs TO BUILD IT.

Will Be Installed In June and viii Cost
t26,ooo-ksw Devices 70 BE Used In
Tits Action Will Be Controlled
Entirely by Electricity.
When camp meeting time comes al
Ocean Grove. N. J.. next summer the
most powerful organ In the world win
greet the worshipers in the big audi
forum and accompany the congrega.
tons In the hymns. says the New
York Times. The Ocean Grove asso
citation at a recent meeting closed q
contract for an instrument to cost $26..
600 and weigh about twenty tons
Robert Hope-Jones. who built the IA.
nous organ in tho Worcester cathedral
In England. will supervise the con.
struction Of tho instrument and has
promised to have It installed by June
Mr.. Hope-Jones now lives in Elmira,
n. Y. He installed one Of his instru.
ments In St Patrick's cathedral, In
New York city. two years ago. and
one of his organs In to be installed In
the Cathedral Of st. John the Divine,
In New York. The contract was ward
ed to him after q committee Of the
Ocean Grove association bad consult
ed some Of the foremost organists In
the United States.
'The Ocean Grove instrument will
be the most powerful In the world"
said Mr.. Hope-Jones the other night
ut Will not DO the largest because
with improvements Of recent years
not so much space will be needed. II
will have some devices which have
never before been used. One Of the
most interesting OF these viii be an
electric system which will preserve the
proper tone Of the instrument, no mat.
ter what the weather may be. This
device will be Of the greatest impor-
lance in the Ocean Grove Auditorium,
because 1t is 30 near the water. The
various pipes and resonators will be
wound with wires, which will be cou.
pied with an electrical device which
automatically will keep them ut the
proper temperature.
1.-THE organ itself will be Of remark.
able construction. The large organs
heretofore have been divided into de-
partments-great, swell, choir, pedal
and solo-but this one will be a unit
with few rows of keys. BY the use
Of n set Of stop keys. which are con.
nected electrically with all the various
sound producing devices, any OF these
may be drawn on any set of keys IN.
stantly at any pitch and any power.
THE various tone families will be
grouped together. and each family will
be Enclosed in q separate box con.
structed Of brickwork. Each Of these
boxes will be Sealed with heavy lam.
mated lead shutters, and the organisi
will have the power of opening or clos.
ing these shutters, as desired. BY this
means he will be able to graduate the
strength Of his diapasons, flutes and
trumpets exactly as desired.
"For instance. the great tuba mira.
bills will be voiced on fifty inches OF
wind and will In itself. exceed in pow.
er the whole Of any organ hitherto
built. Because 1t will be inclosed IN
patchwork and SO arranged otherwise
its tone may be allowed free scope OF
may be reduced to a mere whisper
thoe "hi hVI OFttpVWSt DUN
voice.
1.-THE action OF the organ Will be con.
trolled entirely by electricity. All of
the electric contacts will be made be-
tween pure gold and pure platinum.
These metals, which will cost hun.
dreds Of dollars, have been found to be
more reliable than any others.
"The pressures of wind used will
vary from ten inches up to fifty inches
OF water. In spite OF this. the instru.
ment will be much more refined and
musical In effect than the large or.
gans usually met with because Of va.
rious new devices. One OF these will
be the diaphone, which was tried OF
st. Patrick's cathedral. In Il the vi
bration which produces the tone is &C.
compllshed with an aluminium piston
vibrated in a cylinder. Its vibrations
In the higher tones reach up to 1900
second. 1t will be employed for the
first time In America. 1t Is In use In
some OF the organs ] have built on the
other side"
Tall Esen Morgan, organIst OF the
Ocean Grove Auditorium, Is arranging
series Of daily organ recitals to be
given during the summer. The lead
ing organlsts OF America and Of Eu.
rope will be invited to play on the new
inefr1tuant