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Pipe Organ Returns To Lincoln Center

pipeorgan.jpg A 19 ton pipe organ (the city's only concert hall pipe organ) has just been reunited with its home at Alice Tully Hall (make that: 4,200 pipes that make up the pipe organ.) The pieces have been in storage for years, and the puzzle—transported on two semi-trailer trucks yesterday—now has to be put back together. A Lincoln Center rep told NY1, "Even after we reopened the hall, there's still lots of work to be done there. It takes a while for the dust to settle, literally to settle. This is a very sensitive instrument and we don't want it fouled with sawdust or metal filings." The company from Switzerland that built the organ back in the 70s has returned to town to reassemble their creation, and according to the designer, it will take around two months (and then tuning starts in August!).

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