She is also Director of the Girl Chorister Course at Saint Thomas.

The program includes a Preparatory Choir, Junior Choristers, Senior Choristers and an Adult Choir. вЂњThrough the years we have hosted many GSTOS meetings and gatherings here. Virginia Bolena has served as Organist/Choirmaster at Trinity Episcopal Church since 2013 where she directs the Trinity Chorister Program. When it was playing I connected the piano to the organ so that we had an organ with piano attached.вЂќ Another friend in Minneapolis found them and brought them out to me and began installing them. I immediately began looking for the replacement parts. My wife said that the store she got the piano from told her they had removed the player parts. One evening Frank explained that the decal on the pianoвЂ™s fall board meant that it had been an Ampico Reproducing Piano.

вЂњThe Chickering grand piano came with my wife when we married. An organ friend, Bruce Louden, who had a large collection of organ parts, but nothing playing, pulled up to my house one day with a Deagan Vibra Harp, which is behind the organ and all the Toy Counter instruments you see above the organ and said вЂњconnect these things so I can hear themвЂќ Over the years he would visit and enjoy HIS organ in my organ.вЂќ вЂњAs you can see in the picture of the organ in our home above there seems to more to it. Fred Feibel had designed it as a theatre organ, but it was also very suitable for church work. I got the organ in June of 1962 and that December we had our first pipe organ New YearвЂ™s Eve Party, with one rank, the Tibia Clausa (flute) playing.вЂќ The unique properties of the organ were soon realized. With the help and excellent directions from Frank Cimmino, the organ was assembled. вЂњHe visited me once a week and gave me my instructions for that weekвЂ™s work. Through my wifeвЂ™sвЂ™ sister we met Frank Cimmino who kindly, after telling us it was an organ, agreed to help me assemble this monstrous jigsaw puzzle.вЂќ It arrived as a complete organ but all in bits and pieces with no directions for assembly.вЂќ So I dragged it home (physically), not knowing what damage I was doing to the relay switches. We felt that it might be used in the church where she was the organist. She thought the kids at school had gotten to me (He was a physical ed teacher). Up until this time I had never seen pipes up close. I called my wife and asked her if WE wanted a pipe organ. The teacher in conversation told me she was throwing out this organ. She had gotten it from her minister who had it donated to him years earlier. For additional details regarding in-person safety guidelines, please click here. American Guild of Organists, Akron Chapter Concerts will be presented in a hybrid format for the 2021-2022 season. вЂњI got my Estey from a music teacher I worked with. Arts Holy Trinity gratefully acknowledges its 2021-22 Presenting Sponsors: Leek Pipe Organ Company. Theatre organs have a history of traveling, and this Estey was no exception.

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