Music: Notes That Stun

Everything is Big at Hollywood. It is very fitting, therefore, that the Biggest pipe organ in the world should be installed there. The largest “orchestral organ” in the world is soon to be assembled in the great Hollywood Bowl, a natural open-air amphitheatre. The largest pipe in this musical monster will be 64 feet long. This single pipe will contain as much lumber as is used in the construction of a fair-sized bungalow. It will give out the note “CCCC,” three octaves deeper than the lowest “C” on a piano. This note has only 16 vibration per second—the lowest perceptible by the human ear. If blown by the powerful electric bellows, without any accompanying notes, the impact of the tone emitted would knock any unfortunate listener unconscious.