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Kimball International, Inc. is an American company which consists of furniture brands: Kimball, National, Interwoven, Etc., David Edward, D'Style and Kimball Hospitality. It is the successor to W.W. Kimball and Company , the world's largest piano and organ manufacturer at certain times in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The organ is the world's largest pipe organ located in a sacred building. 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. [46] It is continually being enlarged. This organ is played for more than 300 services each year.
Organ Historical Society Pipe Organ Database for nearly complete list, current and historical. Pipe Organ Database; Abbott and Sieker, Los Angeles, California [124] Aeolian Company, Garwood, New Jersey [125] (organ production 1887-1932, after which it merged with the Skinner Organ Company)
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.
The hall contains a pipe organ by Dobson Pipe Organ Builders, which is the largest mechanical action pipe organ in an American concert hall. The organ is Dobson's Opus 76 and is named for Fred J. Cooper. The hall has two consoles with four manuals, 97 ranks and 124 stops. [9]
HORC reports that as of 2024, 95% of the Ballroom Kimball Organ and 67% of the Main Auditorium Midmer-Losh Organ are operational again, [24] the latter including most of the pipe ranks in the Right Stage, Left Stage and Left Forward chambers. Restoration work is ongoing and proceeding, as the organs' 100th anniversary approaches in 2029–2032.
Examples of sound effects included car horns and flings. A traditional organ console was not adequate to control a theatre organ, as the large number of draw knobs required made the console so huge an organist could not possibly reach all of them while playing. Thus, the horseshoe console was born.
The Tabernacle organ is considered to be one of the finest examples of the American Classic style of organ building. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The casework was inspired by the design of the Boston Music Hall organ (which is now housed, since 1909, at the Methuen Memorial Music Hall ), the original organ was built in 1863-1867 by an Englishman , Joseph Ridges.