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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.
Organ building is the profession of designing, building, restoring and maintaining pipe organs. The organ builder usually receives a commission to design an organ with a particular disposition of stops , manuals , and actions , creates a design to best respond to spatial, technical and acoustic considerations, and then constructs the instrument.
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. [40] It is continually being enlarged. This organ is played for more than 300 services each year.
In the terminology of Christian church architecture, the nave is 40 feet (12 m) wide while the transepts extend to 70 feet (21 m), and the pipe organ is in the chancel. There is a vaulted ceiling 65 feet (20 m) high. Beneath the vault is an entablature whose cornice hides indirect lighting which illuminates and reflects off the ceiling.
The chapel is a late example of Gothic Revival architecture, with its cross-shaped floor plan, soaring arches, and ornate stone carvings. It houses the largest chapel pipe organ in the world, [ 1 ] which consists of 23,511 individual pipes.
The pipe organ of the St. Mark's Cathedral was installed in 1929, as a gift by Avis F Cowdrey of the Cowdrey family (father of cricketer Michael Colin Cowdrey), in memory of his parents. [ 8 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ] The organ is designed by two British builders, with only the metal pipes being built in England.
In 1981, the pavilion was restored, and in 2002, the organ was expanded from 3,400 to 4,518 pipes. In 2015, the organ was expanded to 80 ranks and 5,017 pipes. San Diego's Spreckels Organ is now the world's largest pipe organ in a fully outdoor venue, although western New York has the larger Massey Memorial Organ in an open-air auditorium with ...
The church shows prominent features of Neoclassical architecture, ... Dominating the altar is the pipe organ in dull green and burnished gold. Built in New Yorkshire ...