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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