Mormon Tabernacle Organ and Choir in 1927 / E. P. Kimball

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The organ was an early landmark for the Austin Organ Company. It was even more orchestral than usual for the time at the direction of the Tabernacle organist. It contained the largest compliment of string stops on an Austin built up to that time. Opus 573 was mostly on 10” wind. Sister organs which it spent time with on the factory floor were Opus 500 for the Pan Pacific Exhibition in San Francisco, and Opus 558 at the Shrine Temple, Medinah Temple in Chicago. The original organ case was extended when Opus 573 was built, taking the form it is in today.

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For 1927,it sounds unbelievable!!!!!

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Built in 1915 although that early pipe organs were as close to impossible to record as you can get. At least record well.

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Alexander Schreiner speaks admiringly of Kimball in his autobiography, and this recording of "The Lost Chord," certainly not a major organ work, shows his ability to project and enhance transcriptions. The organ comes across amazingly well.

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Nice strings!

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