LARGEST ORGAN IN THE WORLD
Sir,-Your statement in this week’s Listener that the organ accompanying the Salt Lake City Tabernacle Choir, with its four manuals and 109 speaking stops, is the largest in the world, impels me to write. If this instrument has only 109 speaking stops, it is easily beaten by the Sydney Town Hall organ, which has five manuals, 130 speaking stops, and is dated 1890. Moreover, the Sydney instrument is "straight," and the tendency of late years, especially in the U.S.A., has been to "borrow" and extend right and left. I understand that several larger instruments have been constructed since 1890, but have not the
information by me.-
ORGANICUS
(Oamaru).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 116, 12 September 1941, Page 4
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113LARGEST ORGAN IN THE WORLD New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 116, 12 September 1941, Page 4
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