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Forbes Pipe Organ Debuts With Pros, Devotees on the Keys

SAN LUIS OBISPO -- The Forbes Pipe Organ made its debut in a series of concerts in June -- one of them a Sunday event featuring a number of local residents who signed up to spend 10 minutes at the keyboard.

It took the Massachusetts-based company C.B. Fisk nearly 22,000 hours and 30 employees to build the Forbes Pipe Organ organ over the past year, according to project manager Andrew Gingery.

The new organ in Harman Hall of the Performing Arts Center's Christopher Cohan Center at Cal Poly is a gift from Cal Poly and PAC supporters Bert and Candace Forbes.

The organ’s inner workings consist of two levels of nearly 2,800 pipes of all shapes and sizes that mimic sounds of woodwind instruments like the flute, oboe and clarinet.

Read the SLO Tribune story

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