Chicago Cottage Organ Co., full restoration. Augustine Whitney Melodeon, full restoration. Conservatory Organ, full restoration. Ive got a small Mason and Hamlin with exactly this problem (and a spring but I can get that made Designer of the “Castro Symphonic Theatre Organ”New England Organ Co., full restoration (click to view the story): Mason and Hamlin cabinet, full restoration. Mason & Hamlin pump organ - pump strap repair.
In 2005 he designed and built the celebrated 389-rank Harrah Symphonic Organ for Forrest-Burdette church in his hometown of Hurricane, WV. He has also served as consultant on a number of major organ installations in the United States, Europe, and Asia. In the early 1990s he headed the manufacturing team that resurrected the classic Mason & Hamlin pianos, built to their original specifications. In the late 1970s he founded the Harrah / Van Zoeren Pipe Organ Company and later served as president of the Rodgers Organ Company in the mid-1980s. Mason and HamlinMason & Hamlin entered the field by building their Organ Harmonium, a reed-operated instrument with the rich ability to mimic several instruments of the.We are saddened to announce the death of our great friend Allen Harrah—June 1, 2020—at the age of 85.Allen had a long history as a designer and builder of fine pipe organs, and he built the first commercially successful combination pipe/electronic organ (Ruffatti/Rodgers) in 1972.
The Campaign Committee met via Zoom on April 21, 2020, to review our progress, and I am pleased to report to you: $792,413 has now been raised (with all pledges paid) toward the $1.3 million goal. We are working together to bring a great new custom-designed organ, the largest hybrid (precision digital combined with pipe) organ in the world, to the Castro Theatre.Although many activities have been slowed by current circumstances, this project continues to move forward. On behalf of Castro Theatre organist David Hegarty, the Castro Organ Devotees Association Board, and the CODA Campaign Committee, thank you for your emotional and financial support. We only regret that he didn’t live long enough to experience his Magnum Opus at the Castro.I am pleased to send you this progress report on the campaign for the Castro Symphonic Theatre Organ. His friendship, forward thinking, and encyclopedic knowledge of the organ industry has been a major inspiration to us. Al’s last project was designing and overseeing the building of our soon-to-be-installed Castro Symphonic Theatre Organ—countless hours, all pro bono.
At that point, the digital organ will be fully functional and ready to play. When work resumes and the organ is completed, $160,000 will be needed for the final payment to Walker, and for shipping and installation. This process was well underway when the COVID-19 pandemic halted many activities around the world, including the studios at Walker. The Walker Technical Company of Center Valley, PA, has been selected to install the digital and electronic portions of the organ, provide the custom speaker systems, and travel to San Francisco to complete the installation of the organ. Brown, and event co-chairs Adrienne Hirt and Jeff Rodman planned a wonderfully entertaining evening that was a great social and financial success.The new organ has been designed, and the console that ties it all together has been completed. Diane (Dede) Wilsey and the Hon.
This will complete payment for the organ console, and all components including installation of the full digital organ, and Given today's financial environment, the Committee believes fast-tracking the amazing digital organ is the best strategy, as it produces a gorgeous digital instrument (a full organ in its own right) in the near-term as we complete funding for the pipes and their mechanisms, to be incorporated somewhat later.To accomplish this, the Committee recommends that the remaining fundraising will be split into two, more achievable, phases: As described, its unique architecture brings two entire organs together through a unifying console: a massive digital organ with 400 sounds precisely captured from pipe organs and instruments around the world and reproduced through an array of 120 loudspeakers distributed throughout the theatre, and an authentic pipe organ with over 1200 pipes.
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