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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.
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 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 ...
The pipe organ at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Santa Cruz, CA is based on an A. B. Felgemaker Co. organ (Opus 506, 1889) with additional pipes and Zimbelstern added by Stuart Goodwin & Co. (Opus 10, 1988) after moving it from its previous home in Ohio. [3] The organ is in active use at the 5:00 Saturday and 7:00 and 8:30 Sunday Masses.
The diaphone is a unique organ pipe. Uncommon in church and concert pipe organs, they are quite common in Theatre Organs. Invented by Robert Hope-Jones around 1900, it has characteristics of both flue pipes and reed pipes. The pipe speaks through a resonator, much like a reed pipe, but a spring-loaded pallet instigates the vibration instead of ...
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.
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