"Things you can in find in Minnesota state parks that you might not know are out there: Pipe organs!"
The Minnesota State Parks and Trails Facebook page is right: I didn't know there's a pipe organ at Fort Snelling, but here it is—and it's apparently been freshly tuned in time for summer wedding season.
The W.W. Kimball pipe organ at the fort's chapel was dedicated in 1929, and restored in 2003. "This organ is one of a very few of its kind in operation today," according to the Fort Snelling Memorial Chapel Foundation, which goes on to note that:
There are 13 sets of pipes divided between two rooms called the chambers. The pipes range in length from 8 feet to inches. The pipes offer a more “classic” or “church“ type sound. They are controlled by a unique 3 keyboard and pedal console. This console is created in a “theatre” or curved style which is found in theatre organs of the 1910-1930 periods.
Organ aficionados can tune in to Pipedreams every Sunday at 6:00 a.m. on Classical MPR.
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