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The organ rolls gently forward into playing
position on 16 steel wheels on 4 railroad tracks
at the rate of 1 foot per minute.
Photo by Bob Rashid. |
ORGAN FUN FACTS
Did you know?...
- 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!
- Length of the smallest pipe: 5 mm (0.1968504 inches), smaller than a pencil.
- Length of tallest pipe: 9.8 meters (about 32 feet).
- Amount of beer that would fit into the biggest pipe: 1,509.2 liters (or
about 399 gallons).
- Total length of all the wires in the organ console: 5.16 miles.
- The organ, including its moveable organ chamber, weighs approximately 174
tons and is believed to be the heaviest moveable object in any theater in the
world.
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