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The face of a pipe organ can look like a wall of gilded towers or a bundle of timber pipes leaning into a room. These photographs show instruments whose visible pipes and cases tell part of their musical history, from cathedral galleries to concert halls and a department store.

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Wanamaker Grand Court Organ
Wanamaker Grand Court Organ: The Wanamaker Organ fills a wall of the Grand Court in Philadelphia. Its formal ranks of pipes…
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Saint-Sulpice Grand Organ
Saint-Sulpice Grand Organ: The Cavaillé-Coll instrument sits in a carved case above the entrance to Saint-Sulpice in Paris…
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Walt Disney Concert Hall Organ
Walt Disney Concert Hall Organ: Wooden pipes lean outward above the stage in Los Angeles. Their unusual arrangement makes…
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St. Stephen’s Cathedral Main Organ
St. Stephen’s Cathedral Main Organ: The high gallery in Passau, Germany, holds the central case of the cathedral’s organ…
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Royal Albert Hall Grand Organ
Royal Albert Hall Grand Organ: A close view picks out the central arch and tall pipe ranks above the stage. The grand organ…
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Sydney Town Hall Grand Organ
Sydney Town Hall Grand Organ: The organ’s case takes up much of the wall above the platform in Centennial Hall. Banks of…
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Notre-Dame de Paris Great Organ
Notre-Dame de Paris Great Organ: The Great Organ occupies the west gallery of Notre-Dame in Paris. Its tall pipe ranks rise…
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Sint-Bavokerk Müller Organ
Sint-Bavokerk Müller Organ: The pipe towers in Haarlem rise within a red and gilded case. Christian Müller’s instrument was…
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Boardwalk Hall Midmer-Losh Organ
Boardwalk Hall Midmer-Losh Organ: Rows of pipework inside Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall show a part of the organ hidden…
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Salt Lake Tabernacle Organ
Salt Lake Tabernacle Organ: Golden pipe towers rise above the seats in the Salt Lake Tabernacle. Their symmetry gives the…
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Saint-Ouen Abbey Cavaillé-Coll Organ
Saint-Ouen Abbey Cavaillé-Coll Organ: At the west end of Saint-Ouen Abbey in Rouen, silver pipes rise within a dark carved…
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St. Jacobi Schnitger Organ
St. Jacobi Schnitger Organ: Rows of silver pipes sit between carved towers in Hamburg’s St. Jacobi Church. Arp Schnitger…
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Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral Choir Organ
Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral Choir Organ: One of the two monumental organs in the cathedral stands beside the choir…
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Mafra Basilica Pipe Organ
Mafra Basilica Pipe Organ: Gilded details frame the pipes of an organ in Portugal’s Mafra National Palace. The basilica has…
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Weingarten Abbey Gabler Organ
Weingarten Abbey Gabler Organ: Joseph Gabler’s organ at the Basilica of St. Martin spreads out around the windows. Clusters…
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Freiberg Cathedral Silbermann Organ
Freiberg Cathedral Silbermann Organ: Gottfried Silbermann’s main organ in Freiberg, Germany, has a facade of silver-colored…
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Valère Basilica Organ
Valère Basilica Organ: The painted case of this medieval organ projects from the wall in Sion, Switzerland. Its small scale…
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Auckland Town Hall Organ
Auckland Town Hall Organ: Rows of gold-toned pipes sit in the retained facade at Auckland Town Hall. The case connects the…
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Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Walker Organ
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Walker Organ: The central pipe bank rises above the sanctuary at Liverpool Metropolitan…
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Sainte-Clotilde Grand Organ
Sainte-Clotilde Grand Organ: The organ case rises in the west gallery of Sainte-Clotilde in Paris. César Franck played the…
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Sacred Hearts Church Cavaillé-Coll Organ
Sacred Hearts Church Cavaillé-Coll Organ: The Cavaillé-Coll organ in the Church of the Sacred Hearts stands high above the…

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