A hand-built pipe organ, once a fixture at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple in Beachwood, Ohio, for over 50 years, has been gifted to the Church of the Saviour in Cleveland Heights. The organ, Opus 2257, was relocated after the temple merged with another congregation. Its journey involved a national organ clearinghouse and the intervention of the original manufacturer, Austin Organs Inc. The organ will be restored and housed in the church's rear balcony, adding flexibility to its musical space.
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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