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The organ is the largest all-pipe organ, in a religious structure, in the world. The console has 874 switches for activating the stops, and the action is electro-pneumatic. The instrument is estimated to weigh over 124 tons, and is organized in 23 divisions. It is continually being enlarged. This organ is played for over 300 services each year.
Organ Historical Society. The Organ Historical Society is a not-for-profit organization primarily composed of pipe organ enthusiasts interested in the instrument's design, construction, conservation and use in musical performance. Formed in 1956, the headquarters moved from Richmond, Virginia, to Villanova, Pennsylvania, in 2017. [1] [2]
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called wind) through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard. Because each pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre, volume, and construction throughout the keyboard compass.
Organ Historical Society Pipe Organ Database for nearly complete list, current and historical. Pipe Organ Database; Abbott and Sieker; Æolian Company (see also Æolian-Skinner Organ Company)(1887-1985) Æolian-Skinner Organ Company (1932–1972) Joseph Alley (1804–1880) Andover Organ Company; Alvinza Andrews (1800–1862)
In its day, Hook was the premier organ building company in the United States. The 1864 E. & G. G. Hook organ of Mechanics Hall (Worcester, MA), the oldest unaltered four-keyboard pipe organ in the Western hemisphere located at its installation site. The Hook firm built over 2,000 pipe organs, many of which are still extant today.
The organ's wind supply is the most powerful ever used in a pipe organ. The DC motors for the original eight blowers had a total power of 394 horsepower (294 kW). These were replaced with AC motors in the early 1990s, which have a total of 600 horsepower (450 kW) and their seven blowers pump 36,400 cubic feet (1,030 m 3) of wind per minute. The ...
The following is a list of organ composers. As well as citing the most regarded composers of music for the pipe organ, this list includes important anonymous and early music sources, as well as composers from under-researched regions and countries. Eras of composition are roughly categorized as follows: Medieval: before 1440; Renaissance: 1440 ...
A list of some of the most notable and largest pipe organs in the world can be viewed at List of pipe organs. A ranking of the largest organs in the world—based on the criterion constructed by Michał Szostak , i.e. 'the number of ranks and additional equipment managed from a single console'—can be found in the quarterly magazine The Organ ...