A hand-built pipe organ that once graced Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple in Beachwood for over 50 years is being given a second life in the Church of the Saviour in Cleveland Heights. The organ, Opus 2257, an Austin organ built in 1954, was relocated after the temple merged with another congregation. Eric Silver, a lifelong member of Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, spearheaded the effort to find a new home for the organ, eventually reaching out to Austin Organs Inc., the manufacturer. The organ will be the church's second and will be placed in the rear balcony of the sanctuary.
A hand-built pipe organ that serenaded congregants inside Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple in Beachwood for more than half a century is now stored in a room at a Methodist church in Cleveland Heights.“About 2,000 pipes lay in all of these crates here,” said Don Verkuijlen, director of music and organist at the Church of the Saviour, as he pointed to and picked up pieces belonging to Opus 2257, an Austin organ that was once housed in the temple.
While the manufacturer is based in Hartford, Connecticut, it had a relationship with Verkuijlen and reached out to see if there was interest in the instrument. There was.“It turns out it is actually an Austin organ, the same company that built ours here in 1928, but this one was constructed in 1954,” Verkuijlen said.Silver didn’t learn about the organ’s fate until photographs from his friend, Scott Lewis, appeared on Facebook, showing it being dismantled for shipment to the church.
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