My (boy)friend has been working on an architectural solution for a cathedral to fit an organ. It turns out that the pipes you see on an organ are (sometimes) decorational and not where the actual sound is coming from. I just thought that others maybe ought to know this.
From Wikipedia:
The organ of the Severikirche in
Erfurt,
Germany, has a highly decorative case with ornate carvings and cherubs.
The visible portion of the case, called the
façade, will most often contain pipes, which may be either sounding pipes or dummy pipes solely for decoration. The façade pipes may be plain,
burnished,
gilded, or painted.
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