Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-02-10
VIII Mark Tulsa as MuSi-
cal Center Every
where.
A GREAT ATTRACTION
Would BE Great Benefit to
Every Citizen of
the City.

Few people realize the magnitude
of the big pipe organ to be Installed
I'm convention hall and the subsequent
value of the instrument, as n medium
of pleasure and education TO the peo-
pie of Tulsa, an exclusive entertain
ment feature for conventions held In
this city, and a drawing card for pat
ronaEe from all quarters OF the state.
The convention hall organ Will be
the first and only publicly owned ana
controlled instrument in the state, ana
1t will unfold opportunities for Tulsa
in the musical and artistic world here
tofore unheard of, and elsewhere IN
the state, absolutely impossible to
even consider.
A public pipe organ in a city is
synonymous with tho name of that
city and is the means of untold pub
Hcity and favorable comment for the
city possessing such instrument
When you think OF Salt Lake city,
you Immediately think of the wonder
full pipe organ in the Mormon taDer-
naclc, which has probably brought
more people to Salt Lake City than
any other one thing In that great west
ern metropolis.
When you think OF Portland. Maine,
you think Of the municipal organ in
stalled in the city hall-the gift Of
Cyrus d. Curtis. publisher Of the Sat
urday Evening Post, Ladies Home
Journal Country Gentleman, and
other publications.
Played to Millions.
one of the most unique features Of
the Worlds fair at ST. Louis in 1904
was the massive pipe organ in Festival
hall, where the great organists Of the
world played to millions of people dur
ing the fatr-people from every city
and county in nearly every state in
the union, and from practically every
country in the world.
The success of the instrument. as a
drawing card for the worlds fair
prompted the management Of the
Panama Pacific exposition at san
Francisco to install a similar instru-
ment in one Of the big buildings on
the exposition grounds.
Incidentally the organ at the Frisco
fair is being installed by the Austin
Organ company, the same concern
that is building the organ for Tulsa's 3
convention hall.
VIII Think of Tulsa.
In a year from now, whenever any
one in the state Of Oklahoma hears Of
Tulsa, they will Immediately think Of
the only public pipe organ in the state,
situated in convention hall. The In
strument will have pleased the musi-
cal ear OF thousands Of visitors to the
citv during conventions and other en-
terprises that will bring strangers to
this city.
And every year Tulsa's fame. by rea-
son Of the organ, will spread beyond
the confines OF the state Of Oklahoma,
and will eventually extend through
out the southwest. And as Tulsa
gradually assumes the importance in
size and commercial activity to en-
tertain several national conventions
each year her fame. through the pipe
organ, will extend throughout the ma
tion.
In five years, the value OF the pipe
organ to Tulsa, as a medium Of pub
licity and drawing card for conven-
tions and visitors, will not be esti-
mated by the paltry cost Of the in
strument
And aside; and beyond and better
than all this, is the pleasure which
Tulsa's own people; her rich and her
poor; her children and her men and
women, will receive from the pipe
organ.
The first concert for the benefit Of
the organ fund will be given In con-
ventiOn hall Wednesday night, Feb
ruary II, when the Zoellner string
quartet. the famous Brussels artists
will appear under the auspices OF the
Hyechka club. All profits will 90 to
the pipe organ fund, and the prices
will be 25 to rs cents for any reserved
seat in the house.