Comments on: Convention Hall https://randylewis.org/convention-hall/ The World's #1 Track Chaser Sun, 26 Apr 2020 19:06:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Thomas Mueller https://randylewis.org/convention-hall/#comment-2300 Tue, 05 Nov 2013 21:31:50 +0000 http://randylewis.org/?p=3797#comment-2300 In reply to Louis Skypala.

Actually, the organ is in the process of being restored and the Right Chamber is working now- it was featured in a pre-event concert given at the Miss America pageant in September. Still a lot of work to be done, but a grant made this portion of the restoration possible. An auditorium organist has also been named- I believe he is Stephen Hill? Tours are also being offered to help ppay for the restoration. Check the Auditorium website for particulars. http://www.atlanticcitynj.com/events/details.aspx?id=2568

]]> By: Jack Woodward https://randylewis.org/convention-hall/#comment-2299 Tue, 05 Nov 2013 19:43:29 +0000 http://randylewis.org/?p=3797#comment-2299 The organ is currently undergoing restoration mode, although it will take years to complete. It is a slow process with only volunteer dollars. BUT – it has begun. Only the right main (right stage_ chamber is playable, and in tune at that. It was played for the public for the first time in years, at the 2013 Miss America pageant. Although that portion of the pageant didn’t make the TV prime-time show, it was heard by those in attendance, and gloriously so. Also a very important note is that there is now a full-time on-staff organist at the hall, Stephen Ball. Read at the bottom of the attached article. http://boardwalkhall.com/organs.asp

DAILY concerts are given by Dr. Ball, but using only the most-capable right main stage chamber. That chamber contains the two most well-known ranks of organ pipes: the Grand Ophicleide rank, which is listed in the guiness book of world records as the loudest organ pipes in the world, and the 64-ft diaphone/dulzian rank. The Grand Ophicleide. while very loud, is not “ear-splitting” as one might think. It can sing out over the rest of teh organ, quite clearly. The 64-foot diaphone/dulzian resonates, at it’s lowest tone.longest pipe, at 8 Hertz. That’s modern-talk for 8 beats per second.

]]> By: Louis Skypala https://randylewis.org/convention-hall/#comment-2044 Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:08:10 +0000 http://randylewis.org/?p=3797#comment-2044 Sadly, the great organ barely plays if it plays at all. It is in need of a restoration that I fear will not happen. The organ needs a large group of folks like the Friends Of The Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia which volunteers its time to do the work now needed to maintain the 29,000 pipe concert organ. They were also heavily involved in the complete restoration of this amazing instrument. In other words The Friends Of The Wanamaker Organ did the vast majority if not all of the labor and Lord & Taylor and then Macy’s supplied the funding.

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