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The city of Niigata Performing Arts Centre in
Japan incorporates a concert hall of the "arena" type with 2.200
seats. Simon Platt won the competition for a grand organ for
this hall with the organ builder Gerhard Grenzing in 1994. The
organ creates the principal visual focus of the hall. It adapts
to the aesthetics of the interior with a play of curves in the
façade and the separation of two elements (the positives) which
float in front of the main body of the instrument. These allude
to the floating islands, a repetitive theme in the design of
the architect Itsuko Hasegawa, responsible for the whole complex.
According to legend these islands used to exist in the river
which surrounds the site of the building. The organ with nearly
6000 pipes and a height of 11 metres counts among the most important
in Japan. |
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| Height: |
11 metres |
| Width: |
9.8 metres |
| Number of stops: |
68 with four manual keyboards and pedal. |
| Start of design: |
April, 1994 |
| Date of inauguration: |
Autumn, 1998 |
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