GIGANTIC SOUND BOX
175-TON ALBERT HALL ORGAN. London, Jan. 17. The Albert Hall organ -is now the biggest and finest in the world, its reconstruction having cost £25,000 and taken six years. The chief change was the introduction of electro-pneumatic action, necessitating 80 miles of electric cable. There are 176 stops and 10,491 pipes, the whole weighing 175 tons. Whereas the organist at the old instrument had to play half a minute in advance of the choir, in order to bring the pipes in action at the right time, there is now instantaneous action,
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 January 1934, Page 22 (Supplement)
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