The Schantz Organ Company in Orrville successfully brought the booming instrument back to life with major upgrades.
Their beloved and booming pipe organ is back in action.You may not notice at first, but this is a major move by the Cleveland Orchestra.It's now both a celebration of success and relief to the musicians, production staff, and stagehands behind it who were constantly worried it may not be able to power through.
"It can get above 100 decibels. It's a beast of a machine," Ian Mercer, Production Manager of Cleveland Orchestra, said."It laid dormant for, from the 1950s until 1998. It was nearly 50 years we had one of the world's finest organs sitting here," Mercer said."The instrument is powered by a blower that's actually down in our basement. It's a gigantic hulking beast of a turbine.
"In 2008, as a stop-gap solution, we replaced the keyboard with secondary models from Chicago that were not designed for this. We truly thought that during a high-pressure recital or concert, the organ could just completely fail. I refer to this as TOF," Mercer said.Thanks to a generous gift in honor of the late Bill Blair, a longtime advocate for the arts, repairs and a facelift of sorts became a reality.
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