[Theme] The Organ Thread

[Frank Fremerey]

Nono. There are huge organs in the US. Esp in comunity centers and opera houses

IIRC Baltimore has one of the biggest organs in the world

see http://klais.de

[Gary]

Thank you for the link. There is an organ world out there I never knew existed. (Unfortunately, Baltimore is 3,000 miles east of me.) I'll do some digging around here.

[Frank Fremerey]

The largest pipe organ ever built, based on number of pipes, is the Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ in Atlantic City, New Jersey, built by the Midmer-Losh Organ Company between 1929 and 1932, officially containing seven manuals, 449 ranks, 337 registers, and 33,114 pipes and weighing approximately 150 tons.[2]

[Frank Fremerey]

The Wanamaker Grand Court Organ atWanamaker's department store (now operated by Macy's) in Philadelphia is the largest functional organ, the second largest organ based on number of pipes, and the largest based on number of ranks and physical mass weight.[4] It is the largest operational musical instrument in the world, with six manuals, 463 ranks, 399 registers, with 28,677 pipes and weighs 287 tons.

[Frank Fremerey]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Memorial_Church

[Frank Fremerey]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Churches_in_California

[Eric Borgström]

An other European one?
This is the organ of the Cathedral of St. Jakob, Innsbruck, Österreich.
/Eric

[Frank Fremerey]

St Jacob ... very coool

[Mike G]

A Baroque Organ from a Jesuit church in Lucern! Sadly i don't know why it is draped with netting, maybe a pigeon deterrent.

[Airy]

A beautiful organ, tonally too !

The net is either a daytime pigeon deterrent, or a night time bat deterrent, or both !

[Mike G]

Airy I hear what you say, its just a shame as it obscures a clear view of the instrument. 

[Frank Fremerey]

The Lucern instrument is amazing. Sad it need such kind of photographer deterrent

[Frank Fremerey]

Cologne, Dom

[Akira]

Coll machine!

[Frank Fremerey]

St. Aposteln. One of the HUGE churches in Cologne.

Sorry, I only found German Information on the Instrument:

"Die jüngste Orgel der Basilika stammt aus dem Jahr 1996 (vollendet 2006 durch die drei Chamadenregister) und ist zugleich die größte. Im Westhaus untergebracht hat sie 80 Register, verteilt auf 4 Manuale (C-a''') und Pedal (C-f'). Gebaut wurde sie von der Firma Fischer & Krämer in Endingen.

Die Spieltraktur ist mechanisch, alle Normalkoppeln sind elektrisch. Die Koppel II/I kann auch mechanisch bedient werden. Schwelltritte gibt es für das Brustwerk und das Schwellwerk (hier auch für die Rückwand). Die Orgel hat 1536 Setzerkombinationen, die auf einer Diskette abgelegt und archiviert werden können."