Pipe Organ - Ocean Grove, NJ - Musical Instruments on Waymarking.com

The Auditorium's pipe organ is one of the 25 largest in the world. Installed in 1908 by the innovative organ builder Robert Hope-Jones, its components have been rebuilt and expanded several times since resident organist Gordon Turk took his post in 1974. Additions continue to be made — including a 14-rank echo division in 2008 — in an effort to broaden the resources necessary to play repertoire of many styles and periods, and to restore those stops unique to the instrument as Hope-Jones conceived it. The organ currently contains five manuals, 176 ranks, and 10,823 total pipes. Prominent organists to have played the Ocean Grove Auditorium organ include Edwin H. Lemare, Pietro Yon, and Frederick Swann. Celebrated organist Virgil Fox gave his last solo concert in the building in 1980. Turk and guest concert organists play free recitals on most Wednesday evenings and Saturday afternoons in July and August.