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Scuba

(53,475 posts)
Tue Sep 17, 2013, 07:12 PM Sep 2013

That is one big organ [View all]



A proud posession of the Madison Symphony Orchestra

The Overture Concert Organ consists of 63 stops, 72 ranks and 4,040 pipes, the tallest of which is 32 feet and the heaviest weighing in at more than 1,200 pounds. The organ took nearly three years to design and build. Including its unique movable chamber, the organ weighs in at 174 tons and is believed to be the heaviest movable object in any theater in the world.

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If you stacked all the organ pipes end to end, they would reach 1.58 miles or 8,342 feet, the height of almost 6 Empire State Buildings!


More at the link: http://www.madisonsymphony.org/organ
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