The organ Salt Lake Tabernacle is a pipe organ located in the Salt Lake Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah. Along with the nearest Conference Center organ, it is usually used to accompany the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and is also featured in the daytime recitals. It is one of the largest organs in the world. Schoenstein & amp; Co President and tonal director Jack Bethards described it as "the classic American organ" and "probably one of the most perfect organs ever built."
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Construction
The Tabernacle organ is considered to be one of the best examples of American Classical Style organ building. Inspired by the organ design of the Boston Music Hall, the original organ was built in 1867 by an Englishman, Joseph Ridges. The Ridges' instrument contains about 700 pipes and is made up of local derivatives as much as possible. The pipes are made of wood, zinc, and various tin and lead alloys. When originally built, the organ has a tracking action and is supported by a hand-pumped bellows; then powered by water from City Creek. Today it is powered by electricity and has electro-pneumatic action.
Although the organs have been rebuilt and enlarged several times since 1867, the original iconic work and some of the Ridges pipes are still in the current organ. The current organ is largely the work of G. Donald Harrison of the former organ company Aeolian-Skinner. It was completed in 1948 and contained 11,623 pipes, 147 sounds (color tone) and 206 ranks (pipe line).
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Usage
Organs often accompany Mormon Tabernacle Choir during their weekly radio and television broadcasts Music and the Spoken Word . It also appears in concerts, recitals, and other recordings. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints used the organs to accompany the music for its semi-annual general conference until April 2000, when the church opened a newly built Conference Center across the road to the north, which had its own 7708 pipe organ.
Apart from its use by organizers of Mormon Tabernacle Choir, several guest artists have been invited to play musical instruments, including Gillian Weir (2007) and Felix Hell (2008).
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External links
- Media associated with Salt Lake Tabernacle organs on Wikimedia Commons
- Official Mormon Tabernacle Choir Site
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