{"id":75,"date":"2017-03-10T12:03:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T17:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/?p=75"},"modified":"2024-05-07T13:37:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T17:37:46","slug":"of-mammoth-proportions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/of-mammoth-proportions\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Mammoth Proportions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside>\n<header><\/header>\n<p class=\"mediumnumber\">1929<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">year installed<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"mediumnumber\">4,910<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">pipes<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"mediumnumber\">$2 million<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">estimated restoration cost (2003 dollars)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"mediumnumber\">89<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">years old<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"mediumnumber\">$63,000<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">original cost (1928 dollars)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"mediumnumber\">55,000<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">valve parts<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Anchored at the top of Wilson Hall\u2019s central staircase, its pipes and wires radiating throughout the building, Monmouth\u2019s four-manual Aeolian opus 1677 organ was once the heart of Hubert T. Parson\u2019s Shadow Lawn mansion.<\/p>\n<p>Parson, who owned the estate Monmouth now calls home, had the organ built into the fabric of his mansion. It spanned two floors and included double harps, double sets of cathedral chimes, a Concertola (self-playing piano) with double controllers, and nearly 5,000 pipes that were installed behind gilded facades at both ends of the building\u2019s second and third floors. The organ vibrated to life each morning when Parson and his wife, Maysie, began their daily routine of eating breakfast to the tune of Christian hymns. The Great Hall\u2019s 285,000 cubic feet of airspace produced a unique surround sound experience, enriching the acoustics of the instrument.<\/p>\n<p>Organs such as this were once a popular feature in the mansions of America\u2019s fabulously rich, but Monmouth\u2019s is reportedly the only remaining residential stereophonic surround sound Aeolian in existence today. It has deteriorated with age though, and has not been played since the 1970s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s more to Monmouth\u2019s Aeolian organ than meets the eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":62,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"image_focus":"","hide_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-currents","category-tides"],"thumbnail":"<img width=\"185\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Aeolian-Organ-185x300.jpg\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-62 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" role=\"presentation\" style=\"object-position:50% 50%;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Aeolian-Organ-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Aeolian-Organ-768x1245.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Aeolian-Organ-632x1024.jpg 632w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Aeolian-Organ-1120x1815.jpg 1120w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Aeolian-Organ-560x908.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Aeolian-Organ-280x454.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Aeolian-Organ-320x519.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Aeolian-Organ-640x1037.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Aeolian-Organ-1400x2269.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Aeolian-Organ-1024x1660.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Aeolian-Organ-1536x2490.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Aeolian-Organ-828x1342.jpg 828w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Aeolian-Organ-720x1167.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Aeolian-Organ-360x583.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Aeolian-Organ-4x6.jpg 4w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Aeolian-Organ.jpg 2434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/>","catString":"Currents, Tides","issue":"Spring 2017","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18857,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/18857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}