Secrets of Buffalo: Teaser
I have a great new piece in this vein of stories coming up soon, but it takes a substantial bit of preparation so here is a little teaser. Guess what and where this is.
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DJB
Pipe Organ?
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sbrof
looks like something the school of architecture students would make...
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Drew
Definitely an organ.
Or a VERY large pasta maker.
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TranspoGuy
I know exactly what this is, we used to make these all the time when we got bored working at Home Depot.
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ajay
looks like a closeup of music box mechanics.
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RaChaCha
I'll chime in with the pipe organ answer, as well. Perhaps it's the most awesome in Buffalo: at St. Joseph's Cathedral downtown--? That organ is big enough to walk around in - in fact was constructed that way. The company that built it made it so for the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, so that visitors could walk around inside. The hope was that some of those visitors (all the country's movers and shakers went) might be potential customers, and they were right. Bishop Timon purchased it, and after the expo it was dismantled and moved to the cathedral that he built, St. Joseph's. Why? Because he could!
I was with a Campaign for Greater Buffalo tour group led by Paul McDonnell that was fortunate enough to stop by St. Joseph's when Mark (?) the master organist was practicing. He gave us a tour of the organ, then put it through its paces from the tiniest flute-sounding pipe to the massive 32' pipe that shakes the building and even shows up on the seismometers at UB (OK, I made that last part up).
After giving all that backstory, dare I hope that the pictured pipe organ is actually the one at St. Joseph's--?
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shasti71
I was able to take some awesome photographes of a Organ, I got to crawl up behild the main pipes and get some really amazing shots. My brother was able to show me since he was the one playing it. It was unbelievable what it takes to make the sound.
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Biniszkiewicz
I didn't know for a long time that the pipes in front of church organs were all fakes, just decorations. I thought only modern organs looked like this.
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Quinn
Bini - The pipes in the front of our organ (Lafayette Prez) are real and in use. Not all are fake.
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Jim
It's no pipe organ. Looks like its on painted wood, and pipe organs don't have square pipes, as are in the top of the photo, do they?
Hey Steel, I met your mother at a party this weekend and we...
No it's not the beginning of a raunchy joke. I met your mother this weekend. And, apparently, I've known your sister and brother-in-law for many years. Ed works with my wife. And we live on Lancaster, where you spent the better part of your youth.
Call your mom, she misses you.
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btal
I think it's a pipe organ -- The square pipes have cuts in the side of them like whistles, and are a type of organ pipe (flue pipes, as google has just informed me).
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STEEL
OK so Pipe organ it is. I guess that one was too easy. Pipe organs do have square pipes. they have wood pipes brass pipes and tin pipes. Most of the pipes are not the classic pipe shapes seen from inside the sanctuary. Sometimes those ARE decorative but often they are functional. RaChaCha, Good try but WONG. I did not give any information as to where this is so here is a clue.
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Biniszkiewicz
St. Louis! (is that the name? northwest corner of Main/Edward)
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RaChaCha
Steel, great photograph, and thanks for the second chance: Immaculate Conception church on Edward Street (where Elmwood curves)--? Please do tell us where this second photo was taken from.
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STEEL
This picture was taken from the attic of St. Louis Church. Stay tuned for more hidden spaces in this grand building
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