The Birmingham organ, built by Hill, and completed in 1830, is, a regards size and power, the rival of that at York, though the latter i superior in both, but not In quality. This is 35 feet wide, 15 deep, an 45 high. The swell-box alone is the size of a moderately large church organ. It has 40 real stops, about 3000 pipes, 4 rows of keys, and octaves and one-third of peciales. The largest metal pipe is 35 fee long, au 1 21 inches in diameter, formed, as all the metal pipes in th instrument are, of zinc only. The weight of the whole is abut 40 tons.
The old organ in St. Paul's cathedral contains 1707 pipes, divide Into 28 stops ; 3 rows of keys, 2 octaves of pedals, and the largest pip Is 22 inches in diameter. That in Westminster Abbey has 28 stops, an 1524 pipes ; 3 rows of keys, and double diapasons for the pedals. Exeter is an organ, built by John Loosemore, in 1666 ; its largest pip are 15 inches In diameter. Tho organ at Lynn, made by Snetzler, hi 30 stops, and among them is a dulciana, there first introduced. drts built the organs at Canterbury, Windsor, Lichfield, and Sallsbur That in Kings-College chapel, Cambridge, was built by Avery. Ti organ at Yarmouth, erected In 1740, has 29 stops. St Peter's, Leeds, contains the seine number, with 3 rows of keys, built by Mesas Greenwood, of that place. The new church of St. Luke, Chelsea, hi been provided with an organ, made by Nicholls, containing 33 stop and 1670 pipes. The organ of St. Sepulchre, London, contains 25( pipes, divided into 40 stops; and that at Christ's 1 lospital, by Hill, equal in number of pipers and power to any in the metropolis. TI
large organ in St. Patrick's, Dublin, was presented to that cathedral t queen Elizabeth.
The Great Exhibition of 1851 contained some fine organs, bi such was the vastness of the enclosure that they produced very litt ect, except in their immediate vicinity. One of these organs (by illis), altered and enlarged, went afterwards to Liverpool. Another rge organ, by Hill, was exhibited at the Panopticon in Leicester ruare, but on the breaking up of that establishment it was transferred St. Paul's Cathedral, London, to meet the altered circumstances ider which divine service is now at certain periods conducted in the rye of that building. The organ recently built for Ely Cathedral is fine instrument. It would, however, be quite impossible, within oderate limits, to do justice, even by a bare enumeration of instru ents, to the organ builders of this country, so large has been tho smand made on them of late years.
The is an instrument by which moat of the effects of a nail keyed-organ are produced by certain machinery. Instead of keys it the fingers, the keys, if so they may be called, are inside the organ, id acted on by means of a cylinder, or barrel, 'pinned, or studded in a articular and singularly curious manner. This barrel ie made to we've by a winch, and in those of an expensive kind by wheel-work toyed by a spring.
The Apollonicon and the barrel-organ are described elsewhere.