The sun., 1908-12-13
ORGANS IN PRIVATE HOUSES
GROWING POPULARITY or THIS
EXPENSIVE INSTRUMENT.
The one In senator CIATk's Home 20 he
the Highest PTiced-Other New Yerk
Homes SO Eauipped-Musio Rooms
Especially Designed for Organs.

Homes 40 Equippeu-Musi0 Rooms
Especially Designed fer Organs.
II has como to pass that mark OF
great wealth Is the possession Of a pipe
Tsau in one home.
For reasons quito apart from cost pipe
organs are olassed more or less with
steam yachts, fast horses, racing ma
chimes, antique tapestriss and things
10 that. and 30 far they have been fas
I..s common. Now change Is In sight
The majority of the larger and fnst
houses built recently by rich men in
ohlde music room, hioh in some cases
has a place for an organ. and builders
Of pipe organs are specializing. certain
builders turning their attention solely
to producing chamber organs.
Needless TO say reed organs topped
with dummy pipes such as are often seen
in small ohapels, hotels and public build
ings are not in the class referred to,
which includes only the style Of organ
used in the larger churches. The moiern
reed or cabinet organ arrived some time
ago in the home as well as in small
churches, theatres, opera houses. edu-
cational buildings, steamships, yachts
and elsewhere. The cabinet organ Ia In
fact hitting back at the cheaper grade
niano. a boom for which was created
nearly a couple Of generations ago all
oyer the Western States and ruraldom
GENERALLY by an almost universal protest
against the thin. nasal, ree1y char
aoter Of the melodeon. Newer and larger
public high schools in this city. as. for
example, the De Witt Clinton and the
Mount Morris. have put in reed organs.
+. C. Benediots steam yacht, Mr.. Wal
tars's Nerada and others Of that GLASS
are equipped with reed organs. One of
the gayest restaurants in the theatre
belt recently added to its musical outfit
reel organ. These instances are enough
10 show the more or less popular place
already gained by the cabinet organ.
The progress Of the pipe organ outside
OF church environment has been until
very lately very much slower. Even
in the finest hotels pipe organs are now
few and far between. A resident of one
Of the New York hotels caused no end Of
comment by installing in her private
suite an organ which made necessary
a subsequent deadening OF the walls.
and the precedent established nearly
a score of years ago by the late Mrs,
Joseph Knapp. at that time living in
the Knapp mansion. Brooklyn. who
delighted organ builders and lovers of
organ music and surprised her friends
by having a stately pipe organ set up
in her house, has not been followed by
many. Something like a decade later
when Mrs. Knapp went to live in the
Hotel Savoy she still further surprised
her friends by taking the organ with her.
the builder superintending its putting
up in the owners new quarters over
looking Central Park.
The pipe organs manufactured now
for private houses differ greatly from
the old timers, and it is this difference,
a Leading organist said. which explains
IN part the sudden jump into favor Of the
pipe organ and the fact that in the last
seven or sight years moro pipe organs
have been built for private houses than
had previously been built since pipe
organs were first made here.
Said this man. There are several
manufacturers now who build only
chamber pipe organs There are others
who build church organs only. third
class sticks to reed organs, Organs
for private use are fast gaining in size
and cost and beauty of tone. Some
Of these now in private houses In and
near New York are equipped with four
banks Of keys and are larger in several
instances than the best church organs
Of this city. What is more. 90 highly per-
ected is the tone of these instruments
that they can be played with the most
exquisite chime and choral effects.
Manufacturers ovcr here have devel-
oped the pipe organ into an instrument
for which there IL q demand even in Eu-
rope, one conoern. am told, sending
thirty pipe organs to English private
houses during the last two years.
The evolution og tie pipe organ is
a matter Of interest TO q very numerous
class Of musicians who realize quite as
well as the makers that every manufao-
turer must work out his own salvation.
The manufacturer who says We are on
top now. the organ We make can't be
improved. will soon be out Of the game.
There Is a great field yet for perfeoting
the organ. The mechanical ingenuity
Of America has done a great deal for
lne organ, auQ ~ CAu uo nuOtC. NOL
many years ago. Tor instance, one OF
the best organs in New York required q
pressure Of seven pounds on the keys
10 produce q sound. Think OF It'll No
wonder orRanists were once called organ
heaters. Now the key resistance Is re-
duoed 10 five ounces, or about the same
as o1 that r Of grand piano aRe aons
producing methods. that is-are prac-
tically the same as those In use when the
first notable pipe organs were built In
England in the seventeenth century.
but the methods by which the tone is
controlled and the invention and perfect
ing Of mechanical appliances for bring
ing all the resources Of the instrument
under easy control Of the players are
modern inventions.
In no department Of musical art have
such surprising advances been made OF
late years as in manipulating the organ,
which undoubtedly Is the explanation
of why interest in the instrument and In
The compositions produced for II now at
tracts so many persons outside Of strictly
musical circles
When the fDrst four manual organ ever
built in America was completed In 1850
10y Boston builder and Bach's st.
Anne's Fugue' was played on it by John
Iunde the critics went into ecstasies.
declaring that MIR. Zundell was probably
the only man in America who could play
st Anne's Fugue.'
Think Of the difference now. venture
IN say that in even the smaller cities OF
the United States there are organists
va, can play not only thct compare
tFny 81 ,.p.e composition but almost