Building a pipe organ intro to public

Viewing of the Organ and new seats in the
Town Hall auditorium during the open day last weekend for the new Christchurch Convention Centre.
The public of Christchurch were able to see (but not hear - for that they must wait until May!) the completed organ during an open day. Short talks about the instrument were given to the visitors

Welcome to the website of the Rieger

in the Christchurch Town Hall,
New Zealand

Organ curator Martin Setchell during one of his 10-minute talks given through the open day	A view over the new seats from the ground floor of the auditorium
Newly appointed organ maintenance man, Thomas Rolff talks to Rieger voicer Klaus Knoth, and Mr Ian Dunn, the director of business development for the Christchurch Convention Centre (left)	Some of the public in the viewing gallery.
And later, in private...	...Alois Schwingshandl, assistant to the voicer, puts the organ through its final test stages

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