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The Sydney Town Hall Grand Organ is the world's largest pipe organ that uses mechanical tracker action, built by English firm William Hill & Son in 1890. It is located in the Centennial Hall of Sydney Town Hall in Sydney , New South Wales , Australia .
The Grand Organ. The Sydney Opera House Grand Organ is the world's largest mechanical tracker-action pipe organ. [1] [2] It is located in the concert hall of Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia, and was designed by Ronald Sharp, who was assisted by Mark Fisher, Myk Fairhurst and Raymond Bridge.
Sydney Opera House Grand Organ – believed to be the largest mechanical-action organ in the world. [4] It boasts a grand 5 manuals and 131 speaking stops, 4 stops more than Sydney's other notably large organ, the Sydney Town Hall Grand Organ. It is 16 metres (52 ft) high, 13 metres (43 ft) wide, a total of 8 metres (26 ft) deep and weighs 37.5 ...
Rea supervised erection of the instrument in the Centennial Hall, and tested the mechanism before the famous organist W. T. Best 'opened' the organ in August 1890 [2] and, when Best returned to England, Rea gave a number of recitals at the Town Hall. He also supervised access to the huge instrument until the appointment of Wiegand as City Organist.
Thomas Sharp MCO (c. 1834 – 2 January 1912), was an organist in Launceston and Sydney, Australia, remembered as a member of the committee which drew up the specifications for the Grand Organ in Sydney Town Hall. He was the only dissenter from its final decision. Three of his sons were professional organists.
The largest fully operational concert hall organ in the US. It is the third largest fully operational concert hall organ in the world, behind Auditorio Nacional and the Sydney Opera House organ. [17] Barry Norris Residence United States: Birmingham, Alabama: 5 manuals; 161 stops; 200 ranks; 11,200 pipes; The world's largest house organ.
Frederick Morley (c. 1850 – 21 April 1929) was an organist and music teacher in Sydney, Australia. He achieved a reputation as organ architect, creating tables of specifications by which many of Sydney's pipe organs were built.
An early version of the City of Sydney coat of arms on the portico façade of the Town Hall. As at 2 June 2009, Sydney Town Hall is significant for its continuing use as the offices of the Council of the City of Sydney and as the city's civic and cultural centre. It is the centre of city politics and the place where decisions are made about the ...