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#9632 Re: Nothing In Particular
Phil's Rigan organ.
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#9633 Re: Nothing In Particular
Pah!. It's not even the biggest in Latvia (according to Wikipedia) - the biggest one in Latvia is in Liepaja - that WAS the biggest church organ in the world until 1968, but that honor now belongs to the West Point Cadet Chapel which has an all-pipe organ with 23,511 pipes... i.e. over 3 times the size of the Latvian ones.
However, church organs aren't the biggest - the largest pipe organ in the world is the Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ with 33,112 pipes, now undergoing a $16M restoration that should be complete in 2023. One of the pipes is 64 ft long, one of only 2 that size in the world. The largest fully operational pipe organ (played twice a day, 6 days a week) is the Wanamaker Organ in Macy's, Philadelphia, with 28,750 pipes.
Barking madness, I tell you!
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However, church organs aren't the biggest - the largest pipe organ in the world is the Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ with 33,112 pipes, now undergoing a $16M restoration that should be complete in 2023. One of the pipes is 64 ft long, one of only 2 that size in the world. The largest fully operational pipe organ (played twice a day, 6 days a week) is the Wanamaker Organ in Macy's, Philadelphia, with 28,750 pipes.
Barking madness, I tell you!
Wikipedia. Rabbit-hole. Lost in.
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#9634 Re: Nothing In Particular
Well well well.
Wish I knew everything ..... I've been told there is torrential rain in the east midlands - really ! --- ?
Wish I knew everything ..... I've been told there is torrential rain in the east midlands - really ! --- ?
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#9635 Re: Nothing In Particular
Yes, your home is now 'mobile'. Swim to yer settee MrI!andrew Ivimey wrote: ↑Sun May 27, 2018 7:03 am ..... I've been told there is torrential rain in the east midlands - really ! --- ?
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#9636 Re: Nothing In Particular
By the time I get home I might be living in Kings Lynn. Spose it could be worse.
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#9637 Re: Nothing In Particular
Well I dunno a bijou showerette in Boston on Sunday lunchtime, the rest of the time it's been baking hot. Keep being threatened with thunderstorms but not seen (or heard) one yet.
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#9638 Re: Nothing In Particular
Does the sidecar float ?
PS Got the front windows open and distant thunder can be heard.
PS 2 Hissing down with rain. 18:05
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#9639 Re: Nothing In Particular
We had loads yesterday in N.wales, with lightning & thunder several times. Much nicer today, although pretty warm and rather humid.
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#9640 Re: Nothing In Particular
"No matter how fast light travels it finds that the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."
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#9641 Re: Nothing In Particular
Gosh, Jack - you certainly have been hitting the Wikipedia!jack wrote: ↑Sun May 27, 2018 6:22 am Pah!. It's not even the biggest in Latvia (according to Wikipedia) - the biggest one in Latvia is in Liepaja - that WAS the biggest church organ in the world until 1968, but that honor now belongs to the West Point Cadet Chapel which has an all-pipe organ with 23,511 pipes... i.e. over 3 times the size of the Latvian ones.
However, church organs aren't the biggest - the largest pipe organ in the world is the Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ with 33,112 pipes, now undergoing a $16M restoration that should be complete in 2023. One of the pipes is 64 ft long, one of only 2 that size in the world. The largest fully operational pipe organ (played twice a day, 6 days a week) is the Wanamaker Organ in Macy's, Philadelphia, with 28,750 pipes.
Barking madness, I tell you!
Wikipedia. Rabbit-hole. Lost in.
I don't know but I think you will find that the Australian organ may be only one of three having a 64' pipe in a straight length. For most 'C' compass organs, 16' is the lowest pitch but many instruments have a 32' rank (invariably in the pedal division) at an octave lower. There are (usually very large) instruments having a 64' pitch where the fundamental is around 17cps and not really within the audio spectrum. Musically, these ranks are irrelevant. However, 64' is "speaking" length and not necessarily actual physical length which will be a function of the pipe scaling. In any event, these and other pipes of similar length almost invariably are folded to fit into the space available.
I love these threads which begin at one point and get sidetracked in different directions to finish somewhere completely unanticipated. Bit like life, really.
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#9642 Re: Nothing In Particular
“The organ's wind supply is the most powerful ever used in a pipe organ. The DC motors for the original eight blowers had a total power of 394 horsepower (294 kW). These were replaced with AC motors in the early 1990s, which have a total of 600 horsepower (450 kW) and their seven blowers pump 36,400 cubic feet (1,030 m3) of wind per minute.”
Jeez...
Jeez...
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#9643 Re: Nothing In Particular
That's probably about a years output from our vegi friend in Dirtford.
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#9644 Re: Nothing In Particular
Shurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrups you's lot already!
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#9645 Re: Nothing In Particular
Sorry, I couldn't resist!