A Moller organ (3/17) from either Lowes Palace or Lowes State was purchased by the Lions Club of Vincennes, Indiana, for installation in the new Lincoln High School Coliseum (1929). The organ’s performance and reliability were substandard and funds were not available for rebuilding it. Over the years many parts were scavenged by local organists. My father, Charles Bridges, a LHS shop teacher removed the instrument in 1953, because of a need for additional coliseum seating. Failing to find a buyer or other interested persons the organ was salvaged. Lead was melted and traded for bricks and wood from pipework was milled and used for panelling in a small house that stil stands on Scott Street in Vincennes.
A Moller organ (3/17) from either Lowes Palace or Lowes State was purchased by the Lions Club of Vincennes, Indiana, for installation in the new Lincoln High School Coliseum (1929). The organ’s performance and reliability were substandard and funds were not available for rebuilding it. Over the years many parts were scavenged by local organists. My father, Charles Bridges, a LHS shop teacher removed the instrument in 1953, because of a need for additional coliseum seating. Failing to find a buyer or other interested persons the organ was salvaged. Lead was melted and traded for bricks and wood from pipework was milled and used for panelling in a small house that stil stands on Scott Street in Vincennes.