Comparisons to
Some Large Pipe Organs


A Few Impressive "Show Piece" Pipe Organs

While the size and capabilities of the Scribner-Keeble Memorial Pipe Organ by Schantz pipe organ company at Duncan Memorial United Methodist Church are significantly larger and more capable than pipe organs installed in many small and mid-size churches, it is a modest instrument in comparison to the very limited number of “show piece” pipe organs.  Three of those relatively large “show pieces” include:

Giant Rarities

The Scribner-Keeble Memorial Pipe Organ by Schantz pipe organ company installed at Duncan Memorial UMC is dwarfed by a couple huge organs, like:

After the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis it was intended to be installed at the Kansas City Convention Center. The venture failed, bankrupting the L. A. Art Organ company. The organ languished in storage at the Handlan warehouse in St. Louis until 1909, when it was bought by John Wanamaker for his new department store at 13th and Market Streets in Center City, Philadelphia. It took thirteen freight cars to move it, and two years for installation. It first played June 22, 1911, literally at the same time King George V of Britain (grandson of Queen Victoria who died in 1901) was crowned.(4)

 


Footnotes

1 “National Presbyterian Church,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Presbyterian_Church, accessed 10-26-2019.

2 “William Neil,” The Kennedy Center, https://www.kennedy-center.org/Artist/A4107, accessed 10-26-2019.

3 “National Cathedral Organ,” Loft Recordings and The Gothic Catalog: Organ and choral recordings of distinction, https://www.gothic-catalog.com/Washington_DC_National_Cathedral_Aeolian_Skinner_organ_s/748.htm, accessed 10-26-2019.

4 “Wanamaker Organ,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanamaker_Organ, accessed 10-26-2019.



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