Get set for some awesome figures… seven manuals, 1,439 stop keys, 1,255 speaking stops, 455 ranks, and 33,112 pipes! They are the various parts of the Midmer-Losh pipe organ in Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall (USA), acknowledged by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s largest pipe organ and the biggest and loudest musical instrument ever constructed. It also boasts of the world’s largest stop, its 4.87m Ophicleide which has six times the volume of the loudest train whistle.
Weighing 150 tons, the massive organ was built between 1929 and 1932 at the cost of $400,000. It is housed in eight separate chambers to give a surround sound effect in the hall which originally seated 41,000 people. It takes 4 ½ hours to tour the entire organ. Three technicians have to work full time to keep it in working order. However, the instrument is not fully operational and efforts are on to restore it to its full glory.