The Schoenstein Organ at the Conference Center is a pipe organ built by Schoenstein & amp; Co, San Francisco, California located at the Conference Center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Salt Lake City, Utah. The organ was completed in 2003. It consists of 160 discontinued stops spread across five manuals and pedals. Along with the nearby Salt Lake Tabernacle organs, it is usually used to accompany the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Schoenstein & amp; Co President and tonal director Jack Bethards described it as "the American Romantic organ" which "may be more English than others."
Initially, builders were informed that the instrument would likely be used only at the April and October General Conference and several other occasions each year. However, in addition to these events, the Conference Center organ is now played for the second of two daily concerts during the summer holiday season (first concert taking place at Tabernacle, the regular house of the daytime concert), the First Annual Christmas Call of the Presidency, the concert series Mormon Tabernakel Choir Natal, and various other performances throughout the year.
This organ is about two-thirds the size of Salt Lake Tabernacle organs in a number of pipes (Organ Conference Center has 7,708 pipes in 130 ranks, while Tabernacle Organ has 11,623 pipes at 206 ranks). Former Tabernacle organ John Longhurst described it as "a project of great proportions." According to Bethards, when played as a solo instrument, it was never reinforced; his voice carries through the auditorium under the power of his own organs.
Longhurst describes his reaction to the 1996 announcement on the construction of the Conference Center and its involvement in organ development as follows:
- "Needless to say, [Conference Center announcement] made it difficult for me to concentrate on the rest of the Conference sessions.I can only begin to imagine a space as described by President Hinckley.I assumed that an organ would be needed in the building and soon began to consider what the instrument might be At this time Robert Cundick had retired, and Richard Elliott was now a staff.Apparently, all the experience previously gained worked on the other side.The Temple Square organs (and especially the Tabernacle organs, which we think are our peaks) is now seen as a preparation for what should be followed. President Hinckley's announcement that Easter morning begins our organic journey that will not end for seven years, when the Conference Center's Schoenstein & Organ organ finally declared complete, just in time for a regional bio convention AGO held in Salt Lake City in the summer of 2003. "
The organs include a number of so-called "mechanical aids," even though this is actually electronic. According to the main organ of the Tabernacle Richard Elliott, this includes a "built-in recorder", which allows the organizers to play a show, and then goes to the auditorium and listens when the organ computer replays the piece by physically ringing the pipe.
Video Schoenstein Organ at the Conference Center
Basic specs
- Builders: Schoenstein & amp; Co., San Francisco, California, USA
- Opus No: 139
- Console (designed similar to Tabernacle Organs in an attempt to minimize inconvenience when switching between instruments):
- Mobile
- 5 manuals
- Pedal Board: concave & amp; emit
- Stop the control: drawknob
- Stop talking: 103
- Ranking: 130
- Plumbing: 7667
- Wind:
- Power: 6 Blower ventus
- Pressure:
- Choir: 140mm
- Great: 140mm, 190mm
- Swell: 140mm, 250mm
- Solo: 250mm, 375mm
- Orchestra: 250mm, 375mm
- Pedal: 140mm, 190mm, 250mm, 375mm
Maps Schoenstein Organ at the Conference Center
Stop listing
References
External links
- Media related to Schoenstein's Organ at the Conference Center on Wikimedia Commons
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