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The Story of the World's Largest Pipe Organ,
This review is from: Atlantic City's Musical Masterpiece: The Story of the World's Largest Pipe Organ (Hardcover)
This book is a fantastically complete and detailed record of the Midmer-Losh organ in the Atlantic City Convention Hall (now named Boardwalk Hall) in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Built between 1929-1932, it has the largest number of pipes (33,000+) of any pipe organ in the world. (The official certificate of completion is dated December 1933.) Contained in it's 449 ranks of pipes is a 64 foot rank, with the 64' pipe speaking at 8 cycles per second. This is not a resultant stop, it is real. (The Town Hall organ in Sydney Australia is the only other instrument in the world containing a 64 foot rank of pipes.) The Midmer-Losh organ in the Atlantic City Convention Hall also holds the Guinness record for the loudest rank of pipes of any organ in the world - the Grand Ophicleide rank.
If you want the authoritative record of information on the King of the king of musical instruments, this is it. There are other opinions and stories, but this is the gold standard. The author Stephen D. Smith is the president of the Atlantic City Convention Hall Organ Society. Mr. Smith has spent a good portion of his life researching this treasure, reviewing and including information from the original contracts with the builder of the organ, Midmer-Losh. He has inspected all eight of the pipe chambers - two of them in the Hall's curved ceiling - and detailed every rank and stop the organ contains. The book includes information about the designer of the organ, Senator Emerson L. Richards, the contractors (Midmer-Losh) that built the organ, and the disagreements with city hall over funding - it's construction was a municipal project started before the Great Depression and finished during that time period. Continued funding to achieve the organ's completion was difficult due to the Great Depression. The Atlantic City Convention Hall Organ Society has a website that can easily be found by searching for ACCHOS with your web browser. The website contains some downloadable recordings of the instrument, and of another organ in the building - the Kimball organ in the Ballroom. Also available is a DVD detailing the organ in visual format. The Senator's Masterpiece: The Atlantic City Convention Hall Organ
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