Werner knows all and I thought more $ was raised... One thing about this group - lots of smart people, right, wrong or just watching. Lots of brain power.
http://www.gstos.org/asbury.htm - according to their webiste, their need a crew chief for the restoration. In the NY TIMES: New Life for Asbury Park Organ By KAREN DEMASTERS Published: January 23, 2000 Werner, year 2k: The 700-pipe organ in Asbury Park's Convention Hall, which was originally built to provide accompaniment for silent movies, again will fill the hall with music after sitting unused and deteriorating for nearly 10 years. The organ, one of only two left in the state made by George Kilgen and Son of St. Louis, is built into rooms on each side of the stage in Convention Hall so that the hall itself is actually part of the instrument, said Werner Baumgartner, Asbury Park historian who is in charge of the restoration. The other Kilgen organ is in West New York. Theater organs were made to be played with silent movies and were only manufactured for about 10 years in the 1920's and early 1930's, said Kathy Martin, president of the Garden State Theater Organ Society, whose volunteers are doing the restoration work. A $12,000 grant given through the Asbury Park Urban Enterprise Zone program will be used to buy the parts for the restoration, which will take three years and about 5,000 hours of work, Ms. Martin said. KAREN DeMASTERS ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
