The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
Beautiful Organ At Atlantic
 City

world in the art of dipping into the Atlantic ocean, now leads in another direction. It has recently completed the installation of the largest organ ever built for any high school in the world. One of the most remarkable things about the instrument is that it was completely designed and specified by a senator-Senator Emerson l.. Richards of New Jersey.
 :. Senator Richard9 lawyer, business man and politician, is also an organist and owns in his Atlantic City residence one of the larger residence organs of America In conjunction with the erec tion of the new Atlantic City High school, Senator Richards was chosen to design the organ and supervise it's cree ticn.
 The organ has five keyboards for the hands and one for the feet. Each of these xeyboards is virtually a complete music instrument, as is the case in all organs. The tone of an organ is pro- duced by .stops," which control sets of pipes, and each "stop" gives a different shading of tone, after the manner of the various instruments in an orches- tra. Tie Atlantic City organ has 165 stops which may be played from the six different keyboards by means of 37 couplers; there are 5,774 pipes in the or gan. There gre also 50 combination pistons." mechanisms which enable the organist to get with but one touch of a piston any combination of the 1G5 stops and 37 couplers he may desire to use at the moment, instead of having to pick out each stop separately by hand. 7i N
 The largest organ in the world is the instrument which the Wanamaker store in Philadelphia enlarged in it's own work shop in the store, from the old St. Louis exposition organ which Mir. Wanamaker purchased out of storage. This Wanamaker organ has also five manuals: it is said to have 227 stops and 17,954 pipes, but the Wanamaker store has never given the exact specifi- cations to the press. This Wanama- ker organ, as we'll as the one in the New York Wanamaker store, also built privately in the Philadelphia Wana- maker store work shop, may be heard over the radio in regular programs. Dr. Alexander Russell of the Prick Chair of Music, Princeton university, is con cert director and official organist for the Wanamaker stores.
 Until the completion of the Atlantic City High school organ by the Midmer- Losh factory in Merrick, Long Island, New York City held the record, not only for the largest high school organ, but also for having the greatest number of high schools equipped with organs. ] Its ten or more high school organs were lead by the famous Washington Irving High school with four-manual organ of 63 stops and 3, ,133 pipes, used regu- larly by prominent recitalists for public recitals, and built by the M. r. Moller factory in Hagerstown, Md.
 MT. Arthur Scott Brook is the off cial organist of Atlantic City. He was formerly private recitalists for the Will liam A. Clark palatial residence in New York City. The console or key desk by which he plays the worlds largest high school organ, was designed in full detail by Senator Richards. The plan ist has but SS keys for his hands and three pedals for his feet to manipulate The Atlantic City High school organist has 605 separate pieces of mechanism for his hands, and 51 for his feet, and the success of his organ music depends upon his ability to manipulate these b656 separate items as opposed to the pianist's 91.
 This new Midmer-Losh organ is be- ing extensively used the last week in July by convention of organists who went to Atlantic City for their current convention because of the importance of thesnew instrument and at the invita- ton of Senator Richards and the school authorities.
 The specifications of Senator Rich ards allowed the Midmer-Losh factory 12 months from the signing of the con tract to the completion of the instru- ment in the Atlantic City High school auditorium, and the factory finished the organ completely in Il months, which is somewhat of a record in organ build ing on this magnitude. Organs of four manuals are relatively numerous, but there are hardly more than a dozen gen. uine five-manual oTgans in the world.