Old Organ Finds New Home, New Glory In Wisconsin Church

pk · 08-14-2007, 11:51 PM

Old organ finds new home, new glory in Wisconsin church

Volunteers scurried around and below the 50-year-old Winter Street Center organ Monday, carefully disassembling the giant instrument that has for so long anchored this former church.

Its dense forest of gunmetal silver pipes towered behind spaced white ionic columns. An obstruction never looked so majestic.

With the promise of keeping the historic organ in one piece, Sagadahoc Preservation Inc. signed off on a donation of the instrument to a Wisconsin church. The Dura Supreme window company offered to truck the disassembled structure back to the Dairy State before a six-to-eight-week rebuilding process.

The organ is being donated to the Chetek, Wis., Lutheran Church in an effort to make room for what might ultimately be a performance stage in the historic center — an 1843-era Gothic-style church once used by Congregationalists.

'FULL STORY HERE: http://www.timesrecord.com/website/m...2?Opendocument

AlumniClub · 08-15-2007, 09:09 AM

This is very good news. It would be such a shame to lose a historic organ like this one.

**j10asen** · 08-15-2007, 10:28 AM

Awesome!!!!
This is another example of an Organ donor/recipient success story.

pk · 08-15-2007, 05:30 PM

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This is another example of an Organ donor/recipient success story.

lol good one!

pk

pk · 08-15-2007, 05:32 PM

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This is very good news. It would be such a shame to lose a historic organ like this one.

I love reading stories such as this where a beautiful instrument is being cared for. Many times the worth of the instrument can't be weighed in dollars.

pk

dgridley · 03-23-2009, 10:30 PM

One of my favorite aspects of going to church is listening to some good organ music and the choir...

dgridley · 03-23-2009, 10:49 PM

Here's a set of pics from Flickr on the Chetek, WI organ..

Donated Pipe Organ transplanted from Bath, Maine to Chetek, Wisconsin by volunteers

CindyLouWho · 03-24-2009, 12:03 AM

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One of my favorite aspects of going to church is listening to some good organ music and the choir...

Me too! The churches we've attended have all only had pianos though. I used to love listening to my son play songs like "The Old Rugged Cross", "The Church In The Wildwood" and "Old Time Religion" during services at our church. When he was in high school he also used to have a "paying gig" at the Evangelical Lutheran Church near Boaz. The minister was a friend of ours and had hired him to play piano once a month when they had the "Feast and Celebration". I always went with him and turned the pages while he played. I sure miss those days. "sigh"