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Article: For sale: pipe organ, played once a week
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 23, 2001
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A Lutheran church without an organ is like a farm without a
tractor.
Practically from the moment Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to
the Wittenberg door nearly 500 years ago, the booming, seat-
vibrating tones of the pipe organ have become synonymous with
Lutheran worship.
But today, when so many mainline Protestant churches in urban
areas are struggling to keep their doors open, one Lutheran
congregation in Aurora has made a difficult decision in order to stay
alive.
Grace Lutheran Church is selling its pipe organ.
The 132-year-old Aurora congregation has chosen to sacrifice a
vestige of what it once was-the Tracker pipe organ built for the
church by renowned organ maker Martin Ott in ...