ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
From: John Vanderlee, April, 2001
Please note that Opus 940 is no more.
For almost ten years efforts by NYTOS to restore the organ for free! has
fallen on deaf ears at the former fabled Elks lodge. The instrument was
slowly deteriorating as well as gradually getting trashed by "rental
events".
Recently the building was sold, and apparently a final coup de gras was
administered when some one placed speaker cabinets on top of the main
and solo chests. Apparently the little pipes were easier to flatten.
Consequently all nine ranks are now missing their top 3 octaves.
The console looked like it had been through a war zone.
Last Saturday, a NYTOS crew removed the entire instrument in one day
after purchasing it from the building owners.
Yes, it is parted out. With a lack of storage and manpower, and lacking
specific parts at other projects it was decide that it would continue
life enhancing our other installations. Some parts are now for sale.
Some may decry this decision, but be assured that it would have wound up
on the trash heap if we had not stepped in and salvaged what we could.
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Photos of the Main Chamber before removal, by John Vanderlee
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