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The First German Lutheran Church in Manitowoc was made in 1919. The 105-year-old pipe organ needed an updated electrical system, a few new pipes, and console and facade repairs and overall ...
A Felgemaker tracker pipe organ is played each week at First Baptist Church, Madison, Indiana, which was installed in 1900. In 2010, the Bradley Rule Company of Knoxville, Tennessee removed the organ from the church and completely refurbished it. It cost the church $93,000 and took about ten months to finish.
Pipe organ. St. Peter Catholic Church has the largest functioning pipe organ in the city. Stenciled with grey, olive, and brown and decorated with gold and silver leaf, the 1891 Kilgen Pipe Organ cost $380,000 originally. Twenty-seven of the 2,150 pipes in the set were replaced in the 1992 restoration of the set.
The Hazel Wright Organ is an American pipe organ located in Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, California. It is one of the world's largest pipe organs. It is one of the world's largest pipe organs. As of 2019, it has 293 ranks and 17,106 pipes, fully playable from two 5-manual consoles.
An organ pipe is a sound-producing element of the pipe organ that resonates at a specific pitch when pressurized air (commonly referred to as wind) is driven through it. Each pipe is tuned to a note of the musical scale. A set of organ pipes of similar timbre comprising the complete scale is known as a rank; one or more ranks constitutes a stop.
In some larger organs, a second Tibia rank may be present, extended to 1 ft (0.30 m) instead of 16 ft (4.9 m), allowing a 1 + 1 ⁄ 3 ft (0.41 m) Nineteenth mutation and a 1 ft (0.30 m) Piccolo to be drawn from this rank. A few of the largest theatre organs, and some church organs, may have a separate 32 ft (9.8 m) Tibia Clausa rank of 12 pipes.
The world's second largest church organ is at the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, California. Like Passau Cathedral (five organs, one console), it consists of multiple organs playing from twin consoles. Now known as "The Great Organs at First Church," the instruments were installed over a period of approximately 70 years.
All the Stops: The Glorious Pipe Organ and Its American Masters — Craig R. Whitney published by PublicAffairs a member of the Perseus Books Group; The American Classic Organ: A History in Letters – Charles Callahan published by The Organ Historical Society, 1990; The Modern Organ – Ernest M. Skinner published by the H.W. Gray Co., 1917