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The Chapal at The University of Dayton is undergoing a $12 million renovation that includes the removal of the 1920s Wangerin pipe organ

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My son works for the pipe organ service company that has the task of removing all the lead pipe or "whistles"

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All their other helpers were on vacation so I helped out this weekend

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Very high quality wooden boxes are actually highly tuned whistles

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Just one of the 20+ crates of whistles we've removed so far

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My son amongst a room of pipes that we need to carefully remove as they're made from lead, soft lead

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The alumi will shit bricks if it's the organ doesn't make it back into the chapel.  It wouldnt' even need to be re-built or functional to keep most people happy...

 

I spent the last 2 weeks listening to people bitch about the redesign of the athletic logo.  It's been a lot of "you're changing the identity of the university!"  They seem to be ignoring the fact that the university logo has remained unchanged, and the logo update was only for the sports teams...  Anyway, alumni never likes changes at their alma mater.  It makes them feel old and disconnected from the university.

 

Having been in the Chapel on a handful of occasions, the renovation is necessary, but they're going to have to tread lightly on that...  Most alumni are going to want a good cleaning, and not a modernization.  Off the top of my head, I'm guessing the Chapel was built in 1850, or shortly thereafter.  This definitely isn't the first renovation. 

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