Tallest pipe organ in PIPE SIZE?

[jhnbrbr]

A low-pitched rank of pipes will inevitably be considerably more expensive than a higher pitched one. Presumably the volume of material needed varies as the cube of the length, so every octave you drop doubles the length, meaning you need eight times as much material. On that reckoning a 64' rank would be 32768 (8 x 8 x 8 x 8 x 8) times as expensive as a 2' rank

[Mush]

And, what's "FCCLA"?

It's a Walker digital.

[Krummhorn]

It's a Walker digital.

I beg to differ ... it's all pipes - 354 ranks in all. First Congregational Church of Los Angeles (FCCLA) has the 4th largest organ in the world.

Here's the link to the organ description page.

[SilverLuna]

Woahh....

[Krummhorn]

Yah ,,, woahh indeed.

Prior to 1980 I lived in Southern California and had heard this organ many times when it was "just" 215 ranks. Lloyd Holtzgraf was the organist there at that time.

One weekend there was an organ concert performed by the late E. Power Biggs on a Friday night, and an organ demonstration and organ crawl the next morning.

If you ever go there, the best place to sit is in the 11th pew from the front as close to the center aisle as possible. When both the Chancel and Gallery organs are being used, the listener is thoroughly surrounded by such a glorious sound .

[SilverLuna]

Gotta remember that when we go back to LA this spring!