You can't miss it, and it looks beautiful. The organ is made of ash and oak and has three keyboards and pedals. Its pipes are tin, and the pipe shades are copper and steel, said Fay Morlock, an Andover crew member who was in charge of caring for the pipes during the installation. The pipes range in size from 11 feet to 2 inches, she said. The organ is a mechanical, tracker-action instrument.
Trackers are wood devices that connect the keys to the pipes.
Though the organ is hand-activated, an electric fan inside it blows air into the instrument's wind chest. Pushing a key on one of the organ's keyboards allows air into the pipes, producing sound. Andover employees spent 10 months building the organ in their Lawrence, Mass., shop, then took it apart and hauled it to UNCG in a moving van. They spent nearly three weeks putting it back together in the new music building, located at the corner of West Market and McIver streets on UNCG's campus. The rest of the money came from private gifts to the University's organ fund, which was established in the late 1960s, Tollefson said.