What is the loudest pipe organ?

The Grand Ophicleide (organ stop) in the Pedal Right Division, speaking on 100" wind pressure, is also recognised by The Guinness Book of World Records as the loudest organ stop in the world.

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Organ Country Location Builder Specifications Details

Wanamaker Grand Court Organ United States Wanamaker's (Now Macy's Center City), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Los Angeles Art Organ Co., 1904

Wanamaker store Organ dept, 1914-17, 1924-30 6 manuals

401 stops

464 ranks

28,750 pipes The largest pipe organ in the world, based on number of ranks and physical mass weight. It ranks second in the world based on number of pipes.[10] It is the largest fully operational musical instrument in the world, with the weight of 287 tons. This concert organ was initially constructed for the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis; it was designed by George Ashdown Audsley. The organ was purchased by John Wanamaker for his palatial Philadelphia store; disassembled, the organ filled 13 rail cars. Uniquely, the Wanamaker Organ had from the beginning full-time organ fabricators and technicians, a true "organ shop", building it to luxurious standards of quality.[11] It is played twice a day, six days a week, and there are many recordings of this organ.[12] Its 88-rank String Organ is the largest division in any pipe organ in the largest single organ chamber. Its Pedal Organ of 75 ranks (supplemented by additional borrowed ranks) is the largest Pedal department of any instrument, possessing unsurpassed richness of tone with the capacity for subtle bass gradation in volume and complete separateness of musical line from the manual stops.

At 71 ranks, its Swell Division is the largest Swell ever built.

It is the largest organ built to a straight design with minimal resorting to unification. It has more expression pedals (10) than any other pipe organ, and 8 separately expressive pipe divisions. Despite its formidable size and power, its strength and hallmark is in musical subtlety and nuance.

It is also recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Barry Norris Residence United States Birmingham, Alabama 5 manuals

161 stops

200 ranks

11,200 pipes The world's largest house organ. It can be played from the console in the living room.[ citation needed ] Curtis Organ United States Irvine Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Austin Organ Company, Op. 1416, 1926 162 ranks 10,731 pipes This organ was built for the Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia. At the time of its installation it was the fourth largest organ in the world. The presence of the Wanamaker Organ ranked it as the second largest pipe organ in Philadelphia. For many years it was ranked as 11th largest by pipe count, but recent combining of instruments under single console control have placed it in the top 25 largest in the world by ranks or pipe count.

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