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Your Questions... Answered
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WHAT MAKES THE MIDMER-LOSH ORGAN THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD?
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There are a number of ways of measuring the size of a pipe organ, these include: the instrument's weight, the size/area of its chambers, the number of manuals, the number of stops, the number of stop controls, the number of ranks, the number of pipes.
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The Guinness Book of World Records used the last of these measures, i.e. pipe numbers. Well, it is a "pipe" organ, after all! That being the case, it seems more-than-likely that the Midmer-Losh organ is indeed the world's largest. Certainly it was listed as such in the Guinness Book of World Records until the category was dropped.
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However, the Wanamaker organ at Macy's Store, Philadelphia, has a greater number of ranks (462, compared to 449) and is the largest operational organ in the world.
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Further reading: To see a question about pipe numbers in the Midmer-Losh organ, click here.
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