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The Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ, also known as the Midmer-Losh and the Poseidon, is the pipe organ in the Main Auditorium of the landmark Boardwalk Hall (formerly known as Convention Hall) in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The musically versatile instrument was built by the Midmer-Losh Organ Company during 1929–1932.
Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ console. This is a list of stops (tone selections) for the Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ, the largest pipe organ in the world as measured by number of pipes. The organ is located in the main auditorium of Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The organ was built by the Midmer-Losh Organ Company from 1929 ...
The main exhibit in the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto, Ontario is a hydraulophone, a kind of water-jet organ. This pipe organ has hydraulic action provided by three water pumps and the keys on the organ console are water jets, so that each "key" (water jet) affords a richly intricate means to independently control volume, pitch, and timbre ...
Pipe organ in the gallery St. Nicholas of Tolentine's 1916 Moller pipe organ (Opus 2138) was rebuilt by Peragallo in 2006 and will be restored over the course of the next several years. The organ at St. Nicholas is one of the busiest in the country, playing at all Masses, at several choir rehearsals per week, and at a host of weddings, funerals ...
Hillgreen, Lane & Company, Alliance, Ohio; Hinners Organ Company (1879–1942) Otto Hofmann (1918–2001), Austin, Texas; Robert Hope-Jones, Elmira, New York; Holtkamp Organ Company, Cleveland, Ohio; Johnson Organs, Westfield, Massachusetts – first William A. Johnson Organ Company, then Johnson & Son Organ Company (c. 1871-1898)
The Grand Ophicleide in the Boardwalk Hall Organ, Atlantic City, New Jersey, is recognized as the loudest organ stop in the world, voiced on 100" wind pressure (0.25 bar). [1] Its tone is described by Guinness World Records as having "a pure trumpet note of ear-splitting volume, more than six times the volume of the loudest locomotive whistle."
The Page Organ Company was an American manufacturer of theater pipe organs, located in Lima, Ohio. [1] The Page Company started very small, with a home-built organ in 1922. However, the company experienced much growth over the following decade, with a steady demand for theatre organs. [2] The company experienced a decline in the early 1930s ...
A key attraction was a spectacular pipe organ, Opus 328, the largest ever built at one time by E.M. Skinner with 10,010 pipes and 150 direct speaking stops. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Below ground, a basement Exhibition Hall provided more than 28,500 sq ft (2,650 m 2 ) of exhibition space.