GIANT ORGAN TESTS
REBUILDING AT ALBERT HALL. The great organ of the Royal Albert Hall, Kensington, which is being rebuilt and enlarged .at a cost of about £25,000 — twice as much as it cost when built in 1872 by the late Henry Willis — is now nearing fiill strength, under the supervision of a famous organbuilder. Mr. Arthur Harrison, principal of Harrison and Harrison, of London and Durham, was seated at the console when I saw him recently, writes a reporter vof the Daily Mail. Mr. Harrison's fingers were moving over the keys, and he operated all the 176 stops in his tests, but what seemed perfection to me hrought from Mr. Harrison severe criticism and later examination of mechanism or pipes. By means of terrifying steep ladders we 'reached the floors that house the pipes. On the second tier there was a tiny keyboard used for tuning tests. A touch' and pipes about us growled under the pressure of giant bellows. It was a cavern of nightmare which is only habitable when the organ is still.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 663, 16 October 1933, Page 7
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176GIANT ORGAN TESTS Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 663, 16 October 1933, Page 7
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