A GREAT ORGAN.
The largest organ ever built has just been completed at Ludwiceburg for the Kifja Cathedral. It hsn 7000 pipee, 124 Btopi, wiih pedals, &c ,in proportion. It po«Bei--a a swell arrangement, which allows the increase and diminution of sound to be managed with singular perfection and delicacy of effects. The pipes are filled by machinery tilled by a gasengine of lour horse power. This organ is 20 metres high, 11 metres broad, and ten metres deep— about 05ft, 361t, and 33ft respectively. The largest wooden pipe.U over 32ft high, and its cubic contents are 70 cubic feet ; while, by a curious arrangement, the smallest pipe, only half an inch in height, is attached to the largest one. The full power of such a Goliath of an organ might almost suffice (o shake down the massive wall« and roof of the Cathedral in which it is to Btand.
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North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3973, 5 June 1885, Page 4
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169A GREAT ORGAN. North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3973, 5 June 1885, Page 4
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