Big Pipes
The New York Times has
an excellent article (and short streaming video documentary) on the massive pipe organ (I guess "massive" is redundant when describing a pipe organ) that Manuel J. Rosales designed and built for Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall.
6,134 pipes, three stories tall, the organ (like Gehry's building itself) touched off a storm of controversy among pipe organ traditionalists, one of whom likened the instrument to a supersized packet of french fries. Maybe, but it still looks really, really cool.
(The streaming video link is on the right side of the story pages, in the "Multimedia" box. Free registration is required to see the story, but it's worth it.)
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Posted by johndan at May 11, 2004 07:38 PM
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