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The Salt Lake Tabernacle organ is a pipe organ located in the Salt Lake Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah. [1] Along with the nearby Conference Center organ, it is typically used to accompany the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square and is also featured in daily noon recitals. It is one of the largest organs in the world.
The Salt Lake Tabernacle organ found at the Salt Lake Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah, has 11,623 pipes and accompanies The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square and Orchestra at Temple Square. Organ pipes are made from either wood or metal and produce sound ("speak") when air under pressure ("wind") is directed through them. [53]
The Schoenstein Organ at the Conference Center is a pipe organ built by Schoenstein & Co., San Francisco, California located in the Conference Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Salt Lake City, Utah. The organ was completed in 2003. It is composed of 160 speaking stops spread over five manuals and pedals.
The pipe organ was not yet operational, so the Mormon Tabernacle Choir was accompanied by an electric organ amplified through the center's speaker system. Hinckley remarked in his opening address that over 370,000 people had inquired about tickets for the center's inaugural general conference.
The organ has been rebuilt several times with the total pipe count being 11,623, making the Tabernacle organ one of the largest pipe organs in the world. The current organ is the work of G. Donald Harrison of the Aeolian-Skinner organ company, and was completed in 1948.
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The main exhibit in the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto, Ontario is a hydraulophone, a kind of water-jet organ. This pipe organ has hydraulic action provided by three water pumps and the keys on the organ console are water jets, so that each "key" (water jet) affords a richly intricate means to independently control volume, pitch, and timbre ...
John Jasper McClellan made the oldest solo pipe organ recordings that we know of today on the Salt Lake Tabernacle organ in Salt Lake City. They were recorded on or about 1 September 1910 when the Columbia Graphophone Company had transported specially-designed equipment from their Bridgeport, Connecticut factory to record the famous Tabernacle ...