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>Custom built for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, the organ weighs 40 tons and needs 800 square feet to operate — with a 50-foot ceiling. When
by gardenfelder 3y ago
>Custom built for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, the organ weighs 40 tons and needs 800 square feet to operate — with a 50-foot ceiling. When the World’s Fair opened, it was the seventh-largest musical instrument on the planet.
- numtel 3y ago7th largest? Apparently at the time, the largest was the organ from the 1904 world's fair in St. louis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanamaker_Organ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanamaker_Organ