The stalac-pipe organ of the Luray Caverns

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Uploaded by on Sep 28, 2010

"The World's Largest Musical Instrument"
This is Luray Caverns, Virginia, where an engineer named Leland Sprinkle noticed that striking the cave's rock formations produced musical tones. So, in 1954, he conceived of an organ with little hammers that strike a hollow rock when the organ's keys are depressed. It's quite musical, though with a limited sonic palette. Rather then the usual pipe organ bombast, the Stalacpipe Organ is quiet... kinda ghostly. The reverberating splashes of dripping water in the background sounds like sporadic electronic percussion, adding to the ambient feel.

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  • @3dwurli Just a way of saying that the cavern on the whole was the largest 'natural' instrument so to speak...

    Not meant to be taken literally :)

  • Not the worlds largest musical instrument.

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