The Worlds largest Musical Instrument Ever Constructed. The Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall Pipe Organ.

These images show some parts of the massive Midmer Losh Pipe Organ in Atlantic City`s Boardwalk Hall. It is the worlds largest and loudest musical instrument ever constructed.
The instrument contains over 33,000 pipes, each one is a note, not one of them sounding the same .There sizes range from less than 1 inch in length, to over 64ft tall.
It was built between 1929 and 1932 by a team of 80 men who were employed by the Midmer- Losh organ building firm throughout the great depression.
The organ is a monument to Midmer - Losh, the late Senator Emerson Richards, engineering and organ building .
It is a world treasure, there is no instrument larger than this. It currently is in desparate need of a restoration due to past lack of care and neglect.
To help save the instrument please visit www.acchos.org
here you can buy recordings and DVD`s of the instrument and books describing its unique and very interesting history.
ALL purchases and memberships help fund the organs restoration.
Videos on youtube of the Midmer Losh
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHJ-ral_IVM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2mWgrz98Z8

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Thanks to Nathan L Figlio for providing these photo`s.

Would you like to know what its like to sit at the console of this magnificent instrumnet?
Follow this link :
www.acchos.org/qtvr/full_screen/console- fs.html

This is how it looks from standing in the centre of the main floor :
www.acchos.org/qtvr/full_screen/main-hal l_fs.html

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items are from between 25 Mar 2007 & 16 Oct 2007.