1976 Press Photo Pipe organ at New York's Lincoln Center is tested - mjb71580

The pipe organ in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall was tested. Looking more like an elegant exercise in design than a wonder of technology - actually, it's both - a new tracker organ now graces the stage of the Alice Tully Hall in new York City's Lincoln Center. Its 4,192 pipes, in 85 ranks with 61 stops, range in length from 16 feet to less than an inch. Their voices range from thunder to the tiniest flute and the organ will make music as a solo or ensemble instrument. It's played from a console with four independent keyboards with direct mechanical linkage (trackers ) from the keys to the pipes. The organ is a gift to the Lincoln Center from Miss Alice Tully in memory of Edward Graeffe. It is part of her original grant to the Center for the building of the hall that bears her name. The organ was designed and built in Switzerland. It took about six months to assemble in the hall after its arrival in this country. Some steps in that assembling are shown in these photographs. The Theodore Kuhn firm of Switzerland was the contractor. Musical Instruments - Keyboard

Photo measures 8 x 10.25 inches. Photo is dated 01-19-1976.

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