Any thoughts as to where it could be installed?
Bill
 
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> From:         Neal Holifield[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent:         Friday, November 13, 1998 10:22 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Steere organ magnum opus
>
> Rather makes you wonder how much they'd pay someone to take it off
> their
> hands.
>
> Neal Holifield
> Austin, Texas
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> Arthur G. LaMirande <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Steere organ magnum opus
> > Date: Friday, November 13, 1998 9:10 AM
> >
> > I believe the magnum opus of the Steere Organ Co. (Springfield,
> Mass.)
> was the
> > 4M organ built for the (then-new) Municipal Auditorium (now Symphony
> Hall)
> > right in Springfield, circa 1915.  The story is that it broke the
> company
> > financially.
> >
> > This organ was heard in concert and at numerous public events for
> decades.
> > But by 1960, it had fallen into ruin.  Rather than spend the money
> for a
> > proper restoration, the city fathers put the whole organ into
> storage in
> the
> > basement of the Auditorium; and there it languishes today, evidently
> forgotten
> > and unlamented.
>
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