Dome Pipe Organ is the second largest pipe organ

Pipe organ

The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air through pipes selected via a keyboard. Because each organ pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre and volume throughout the keyboard compass...

 in Latvia

Latvia

Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

, is located in Riga Cathedral. The largest mechanical pipe organ in Latvia is located in Liepāja Holy Trinity Cathedral

Liepāja Holy Trinity Cathedral

Liepāja Holy Trinity Lutheran Cathedral is a historical Lutheran cathedral in Liepāja, Latvia. The foundation stone of the church was laid in 1742 and on December 5, 1758, the church was solemnly consecrated. The church interior and exterior architecture is built in the late baroque style with...

History

The first known Riga Cathedral organ was the largest in the world, but it was lost in 1547 during a fire. In 16th century, the Cathedral Church built a new organ, which sounded for 280 years. Of it remained Jacob Raab made prospectus in mannerism

Mannerism

Mannerism is a period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but Northern Mannerism continued into the early 17th century throughout much of Europe...

 style with some baroque elements complemented latter by other masters. Today the vocal organ is more than a century old, it's built by German firm E.F. Walcker & Sons

Walcker Orgelbau

Walcker Orgelbau of Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, is a builder of pipe organs. It was founded in Cannstatt, a suburb of Stuttgart in 1780 by Johann Eberhard Walcker...

 in Ludwigsburg

Ludwigsburg

Ludwigsburg is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar. It is the largest and primary city of the Ludwigsburg urban district with about 87,000 inhabitants...

 in 1882-83 and it was inaugurated on January 31, 1884. In 1983-1983 the organ was reconstructed by "Flentrop Orgelbouw", and it has retained its distinctive sound and nowadays. During reconstruction was completely dismantled and then reassebled, restored second console and was removed later added 3 stops. Nowadays the facade is in restoration, there will be restored original painting in blue and gold.

Construction

The Walcker's Organ has two consoles, which give a rare opportunity for two organ players to compete. Dom organ has four manual

Manual (music)

A manual is a keyboard designed to be played with the hands on a pipe organ, harpsichord, clavichord, electronic organ, or synthesizer. The term "manual" is used with regard to any hand keyboard on these instruments to distinguish it from the pedalboard, which is a keyboard that the organist plays...

s or keyboards and a pedalboard, 125 registers (each of them gives different sound tone), as well as 6768 different sizes of wood and metal stabule

Stabule

Stabule is a national woodwind musical instrument of Lithuania and Latvia, similar to the recorder. Most often it was made and played by shepherds at a night watch of horses at grass and on festivals....

s (pipes), of which the longest is 10 meters, the smallest - 8 mm. Pipe diameters are from 4 mm to 50 cm. It plays 116 voices, 124 stops, 144 ranks, includes 18 combinations and General Crescendo

Crescendo

-In music:*Crescendo, a passage of music during which the volume gradually increases, see Dynamics * Crescendo , a Liverpool-based electronic pop band* "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue", one of Duke Ellington's longer-form compositions...

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I Manual C–f3 ---- Principal 16′ Flauto major 16′ Viola di Gamba 16′ Octav 8′ Hohlflöte 8′ Viola di Gamba 8′ Doppelflöte 8′ Gemshorn 8′ Quintatön 8′ Bourdon 8′ Dulciana 8′ Quinte 51/3′ Octav 4′ Gemshorn 4′ Gamba 4′ Hohlflöte 4′ Rohrflöte 4′ Terz 31/5′ Quinte 22/3′ Octav 2′ Superoctav 1′ Sexquialtera II Cornet V 8′ Mixtur VI 4′ Scharff IV 11/3′ Contrafagott 16′ Tuba mirabilis 8′ Trompette harm. 8′ Cor anglais 8′ Euphon 8′ Clairon 4′ Cornettino 2′

II Manual C–f3 ---- Geigenprincipal 16′ Bourdon 16′ Principal 8′ Fugara 8′ Spitzflöte 8′ Rohrflöte 8′ Concertflöte 8′ Liebl. Gedeckt 8′ Viola di Alta 8′ Dolce 8′ Principal 4′ Fugara 4′ Salicet 4′ Flauto dolce 4′ Quinte 22/3′ Superoctav 2′ Waldflöte 2′ Terz 13/5′ Sexquialtera II Cornet V 8′ Mixtur V 22/3′ Äolodicon 16′ Ophicleide 8′ Fagott/Oboe 8′ Oboe 4′ Tremolo Fagott/Oboe

III Manual C–f3 ---- Salicional 16′ Lieblich Gedeckt 16′ Geigenprincipal 8′ Viola d’amour 8′ Wienerflöte 8′ Gedeckt 8′ Salicional 8′ Harmonika 8′ Bourdon d’echo 8′ Bifra 8′+4′ Geigenprincipal 4′ Spitzflöte 4′ Traversflöte 4′ Dolce 4′ Piccolo 2′ Mixtur IV 22/3′ Vox humana 8′ Basson 8′ Clarinette 8′ Tremolo Vox humana IV Schwellwerk C–f3 ---- Quintatön 16′ Flötenprincipal 8′ Unda maris 8′ Melodica 8′ Flûte traversière 8′ Bourdon doux 8′ Äoline 8′ Voix céleste 8′ Viola tremolo 8′ Piffaro 8′+2′ Flötenprincipal 4′ Gedecktflöte 4′ Vox angelica 4′ Salicet 2′ Harmonia ätheria III 22/3′ Trompete 8′ Physharmonika 8′

Pedal C–g1 ---- Principalbaß 32′ Octavbaß 16′ Violonbaß 16′ Contraviolonbaß 16′ Subbaß 16′ Flötenbaß 16′ Gedecktbaß 16′ Quintbaß 102/3′ Octavbaß 8′ Hohlflötenbaß 8′ Gedecktbaß 8′ Violoncello 8′ Terzbaß 62/5′ Octavbaß 4′ Hohlflöte 4′ Octav 2′ Sexquialtera II Mixtur V 51/3′ Grand Bourdon V 32′ Bombardon 32′ Posaune 16′ Trompete 8′ Corno 4′ Schwellpedal C–g1 ---- Violon 16′ Bourdon 16′ Dolceflöte 8′ Violon 8′ Viola 4′ Flautino 2′ Serpent 16′ Bassethorn 8′

• Coupler
  Coupler
  Coupler is a word used to describe any of a number of things:* A railway coupling device;** A Janney coupler;* An electronic device, more properly, an acoustic coupler;* A telecommunications device known as a directional coupler;...
  
  s: II/I, III/I, IV/I, III/II, IV/II, I/P, II/P, III/P, IV/P, I–IV/P, P/I („noli me tangere“).