Kaohsiung-Orgel, Pipe organ at National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, Taiwan.
The Kaohsiung-Orgel is a pipe organ at the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts in Taiwan, featuring 9,085 pipes and 127 stops spread across multiple keyboards. The installation actually consists of two different organs that can be controlled through three separate consoles, allowing musicians to produce a wide range of musical colors.
The organ was inaugurated in October 2018 with a performance by Iveta Apkalna, marking the completion of Taiwan's largest performing arts center. Years of planning led to the creation of this instrument, designed to bring together local and international sound traditions.
The instrument brings together French Romantic and German Baroque design elements in a single installation. You can sense these influences in how the two organs are styled differently, one drawing from Banyan trees and the other from bamboo forms.
Visitors can watch the instrument being played since it sits in the concert hall at the arts center where performances happen regularly. The best way to experience it is during scheduled concerts, when you can hear the full range of sounds in the hall's acoustics.
The instrument benefited from consultation by Olivier Latry, the organist at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. It stands as the largest pipe organ in Asia, drawing music lovers from around the world.
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