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Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
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ndra Palace, built by thesame maker; and it is about double the size ofthe fine organ of St. Pauls Cathedral. In this South Kensington.) A MONSTER ORGAN. 5 organ the builder, for the first time, made use ofpneumatic tubes for the connection of the manualsand pedals with pipes at a distance, instead of theold long tracker movement; and it is probablethat this invention will, in the course of time, causeimportant changes in the construction of suchgigantic instruments. With its vistas of polishedpipes of all sizes, some of them gleaming likesilver, the organ arrests the eye at once on entering feet, the shorter length is i8o feet, and there is adistance of 140 feet between the floor of the arenaand the dome. Since the day of the opening of the hall byHer Majesty, when the orchestra was occupied by1,200 instrumentalists and vocalists, concerts ona grand and extensive scale have been the chiefuse to which the building has been put; and itwas also used for part of the display in the annual
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INrLklOR 01 HIE AILLkT HALT. the building; and when one hears that the motivepower is supplied by two steam-engines, one mightbe led to expect such a volume of sound as wouldalmost blow the roof off The lighting of the hall is a novelty in itselfThirty gold-coloured chandeliers, one in each arch,surround the picture-gallery, each having fifteenlights. There is a third ring of sixty chandeliers,with twenty-one lights each; and altogether thereare nearly 7,000 gas jets^ which can all be lit byelectricity in ten seconds. The spaces over the porches on the east andwest sides of the hall have been in each casearranged as a lecture theatre, having a raised floor,with a platform or stage, and holding about 200people. At its widest part the hall measures 200 mdustrial Exhibitions of 1871-4. The grandestscenes, perhaps, which have taken place within itswalls were on the occasions of the state concertsgiven in honour of the visits to England of theShah of Persia, the Czar of Russia, &c.; an

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