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Organ Construction

Concert audiences are able to enjoy organ music in the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts at Hope College.

The custom-built organ was constructed by Casavant Frères (Casavant Brothers) of Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada. The organ makes the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts the only purely musical hall in West Michigan with an embedded concert organ. The new three-manual and pedal organ has 54 ranks of pipes, for a total of 3,092 pipes, ranging from some 20-feet tall to the size of a pencil.

  • Simon Couture, Vice President of Casavant Frères, draws on the plans for the organ on the ground.
  • Some of the organ pieces stacked before being placed.
  • Some of the organ pieces stacked before being placed.
  • People building the embedded concert organ.
  • The wooden pieces of the concert organ.
  • The wooden pieces of the concert organ being prepared for the pipes.
  • The wooden pieces of the concert organ being prepared for the pipes.
  • A close-up of organ pipes assembled.
  • The organ being built in a modeling room.
  • The organ assembled in a modeling room.
  • Three-manual and pedal organ in a modeling room.
  • A close-up of the organ being built.
  • David P. Roossien and Huw Lewis with Simon Couture in the modeling room.
  • Huw Lewis in the modeling room testing the organ.
  • Huw Lewis in the modeling room testing the organ.
  • David P. Roossien and Huw Lewis in the modeling room testing the organ.
  • The organ in the modeling room.
  • The organ in the modeling room.
  • Wooden structures built to hold organ pipes.
  • Part of the organ.
  • Two men moving the organ console.
  • The organ pipes lying on the floor in the auditorium, ready to be assembled.
  • The organ pipes lying on the floor in the auditorium, ready to be assembled.
  • Two people moving organ pipes in the auditorium.
  • Workers placing the first organ pipes.
  • The first organ pipes being placed in the auditorium.
  • Two men assembling the organ pipes.
  • Two men assembling the organ pipes.
  • The first set of organ pipes in place.
  • More organ pipes added onto the starting layer.
  • A view of the organ from down below.
  • An above view of the organ.
  • The organ from a side view.
  • A man working on assembling the pipes.
  • A man working on assembling the organ.
  • Organ pipes.
  • Organ pipes standing in place.
  • A man placing organ pipes.
  • A man securing organ pipes.
  • A close-up of some of the smaller organ pipes.
  • A close-up of organ pipes.
  • A man securing smaller organ pipes.
  • A close-up of the organ console controls.
  • The organ console in the auditorium.
  • The organ console in the auditorium.
  • A close-up of organ pipes.
  • Some of the organ pipes set up.
  • A close-up of organ pipes.
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