Cornell University inaugurates a "reproduction" instrument

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Cornell University will celebrate its new baroque pipe organ – built based on the plans of the renowned 18th-century Schnitger organ in the Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, destroyed in World War II – with a series of concerts and lectures from March 8-13, 2011 at Anabel Taylor Hall and other campus venues. The official concert festival and conference is entitled "Keyboard Culture in 18th-Century Berlin and the German Sense of History."

The $2 million majestic organ required seven years of research in an international, collaborative effort by Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, and the Gothenburg Organ Art Center (GOArt) at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The organ is expected to last several hundred years. There are 1,847 pipes placed in 42 rows, and it took nearly eight months to "voice" them.

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