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February 29, 1876
Providence Morning Star
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
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A firm builds a massive organ for the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, featuring four manuals, innovative wind systems, pneumatic motors, and open avenues for visitor inspection, with E. J. Kilburn representing the firm.
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A MAMMOTH CENTENNIAL ORGAN.
The same firm who built the Cathedral organ have nearly completed a mammoth instrument for the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia. It will occupy a commanding position in the gallery at the eastern end of the great nave of the main exhibition building. It will look down a vista 1,583 feet in length. It is intended to combine in this instrument all the different modifications and applications of the organ, in short to make it a complete practical dictionary of the organ and organ building. All the great effects of the Cathedral organ will be reproduced with such variations and modifications as may be required. There will be four manuals and a Pedale of 32 feet pipes, and the selection of stops has been made with a view to making all the different classifications. The firm will occupy a gallery 75 feet wide and over 25 feet in depth mainly with this organ. The exterior will be finished tastefully but not elaborately, the purpose being to exhibit a thorough and honest specimen of Yankee organ manufacture, rather than an organ-case. The wind apparatus will include two large bellows, with vertical feeders, high pressure bellows for the tuba mirabilis and other powerful stops, compensatory reservoirs for parts of the organ remote from the bellows, etc. Pneumatic motors will be applied, some acting by exhaust instead of inflation. The motors, which are to be supplied by the Boston Hydraulic Motor Company, will be in plain view of visitors on the main floor directly beneath the organ. Perhaps the most novel feature of all connected with the instrument will be the fact that all its working parts will be open to the inspection of visitors. Two main avenues will lead through the organ, one on each side of the organist's desk, and there is a cross avenue. These communicate with stairways leading to other systems of avenues in the stories above, there being four stories in all. Mr. E. J. Kilburn, who goes out to represent the firm at the exposition, will also have an office inside the organ.
The same firm who built the Cathedral organ have nearly completed a mammoth instrument for the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia. It will occupy a commanding position in the gallery at the eastern end of the great nave of the main exhibition building. It will look down a vista 1,583 feet in length. It is intended to combine in this instrument all the different modifications and applications of the organ, in short to make it a complete practical dictionary of the organ and organ building. All the great effects of the Cathedral organ will be reproduced with such variations and modifications as may be required. There will be four manuals and a Pedale of 32 feet pipes, and the selection of stops has been made with a view to making all the different classifications. The firm will occupy a gallery 75 feet wide and over 25 feet in depth mainly with this organ. The exterior will be finished tastefully but not elaborately, the purpose being to exhibit a thorough and honest specimen of Yankee organ manufacture, rather than an organ-case. The wind apparatus will include two large bellows, with vertical feeders, high pressure bellows for the tuba mirabilis and other powerful stops, compensatory reservoirs for parts of the organ remote from the bellows, etc. Pneumatic motors will be applied, some acting by exhaust instead of inflation. The motors, which are to be supplied by the Boston Hydraulic Motor Company, will be in plain view of visitors on the main floor directly beneath the organ. Perhaps the most novel feature of all connected with the instrument will be the fact that all its working parts will be open to the inspection of visitors. Two main avenues will lead through the organ, one on each side of the organist's desk, and there is a cross avenue. These communicate with stairways leading to other systems of avenues in the stories above, there being four stories in all. Mr. E. J. Kilburn, who goes out to represent the firm at the exposition, will also have an office inside the organ.
What sub-type of article is it?
Curiosity
Historical Event
What themes does it cover?
Triumph
What keywords are associated?
Mammoth Organ
Centennial Exposition
Philadelphia
Organ Building
Pneumatic Motors
Visitor Inspection
What entities or persons were involved?
E. J. Kilburn
Where did it happen?
Philadelphia, Centennial Exposition Main Exhibition Building
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Key Persons
E. J. Kilburn
Location
Philadelphia, Centennial Exposition Main Exhibition Building
Story Details
A firm constructs a large organ for the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, designed as a comprehensive showcase of organ building with innovative features like open inspection avenues and pneumatic motors.