The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-15
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| The recent installation OF giant
pipe organ in the College OF the City
| Of New York is another proof OF Amcr-
lean progress. not only In love Of mu-
struments on which tho music is rem
dercd This organ. one OF the largest
In, the world. has 1000 pipes the long
est one being thirty-two feet, and the
When completed. the organ will have
n thirty wo-foot reed lombard, which
Will enable the organist to give Wag.
ner music drama with all the essential
tone colorlns. The cost was s2s.soo.
The organ builders Of America lave
made great progress in the past half
century, and may now lay claim to
tho largest. most expensive. and most
complete organs in the world. With
all this, they have succeeded In pro-
ducing as perfectly toned Instruments
as those OF Europe. rne largest organ
IN the world Is in Convention Hall at
Kansas City. and was built by an
American Amer organ maker y has 10000
thirty-two feet long. They arc so
large that Shetland pony can stand
in either OF them. The smallest pipe is
SO microscopic that It's sound Is but
OF wire In the instrument, and over
$4,000 feet of lumber. 1t contains 1900
magnets. has 10 stops. weighs 125
tons, and cost $4,000. This organ was
tion. and millions listened to its titanic
voice as called forth by some OF the
greatest organists or the world. Organ
makers nnhesitatingly declare that IT
organ is eNcelled. Its 10000 pipes and
its 40 stops enable IT to initiate almost
every sound that falls upon the human
car. 1t has the electro-pneumatic ac-
ton. the idea followed being much the
same that liz found in the electro pneu-
matte switching apparatus used by.rail-
roads. and II requires two 12Is -horse-
power motors and one 2-horsepower
moved from st. Louis to Kansas city
ten freight cars were required to haul
The next largest organ in, the world
is the one In the Town Hall at sydney.
Australia. 1t contains 5000 pipes and
feet of floor space. Prior to the build
Ing of the big Worlds Fair organ for
st. Louis. the sydney organ was the
largest in the world. and had held
In size. and it is said without peer
In the whole world In tone. Is the one
In the Chicago Auditorium. This or
gan has over 1000 pipes.
II Is said that the Seattle Exposition
is to have very fine organ. The James
town Exposition had fine one. and
the other worlds fairs have had ample
eequipment in this line. Perhaps the
the one in the Mormon Temple. in Sal,
Lake City. II Is said to be more per-
fectly adjusted to the acoustics OF
the auditorium than Is any other organ
most interesting organs ever built was
one constructed by Nirginian named
Myers. 1t was an elaborate pipe organ
but all of the pipes were made OF
paper. il did service In church at
DAYTON Va. for several years. and
was afterwards sold to school. The
quality of it's tone was favorably COM
mented upon. yet the builder had not
work. having been nothing more than
a country music teacher. The pathetic
part OF II was that he died OF tuber-
culosis but few weeks after his organ
Vas installed, and that on 1t his re-
QUEEN was played.
Church organs had long fight for
a footing in america. In little old ST.
Johns Church, Portsmouth,. n. H..
Brattle organ. This organ was import,
ed by Thomas Brattle. treasurer OF
Harvard University. about the year
d7os He intended II for the Brattle
to accept it. 1t was afterward given
or sold to Kings Chapel. and fnally
landed In st. Johns. 1t played a re-
QUEEN to Queen Anne. who gave tho
at the age OF eighty-four 1t sounded a
dirge for George Washington. Seven
ty-seven years after the Brattle Square
congregation had rejected the Brattla
organ 1t decided that 1t could no lon-
ger resist the march of progress, and
ordered rather expensive organ from
Europe. In due time II arrived in Ros-
ton harbor- Even at that late date.
the arrival caused much dissent In the
congregation, and one wealthy mem
Der offered to pay every cent it had
cost. and to give in addition like
amount to the poor of Boston, If they
would dump It overheard In the harbor.
But the offer was refused and the or
gan installed.
There are still quite a number of re-
ligious sects In the United States who
do not believe In instrumental music
in the church. The Quakers do
not believe in it, The Dunkards
and the Mennonites numbering nearly
ment here does mot go as far as. I
believe IT. Will go in years soon to come
~ do not feel like 1uarreling. hut.
thanking God for the advance 1t has