The Kramer Chapel Organ
The Kramer Chapel Organ is an integral part of the stunning total Kramer Chapel design. This design unity is not an accident, for architect, Eero Saarinen, and organ builder, Herman Schlicker, worked together for the magnificent result. Here are some facts about the instrument that created quite an interest in the organ world, in the LCMS, and in Fort Wayne in the 1950s.
Builder
Schlicker Organ Company, Buffalo, New York
Organ Design Consultant
Paul Bunjes, Professor at Concordia College (University), River Forest, Illinois.
Year of Installation
1958
Cost
$45,000
Organ Dedication Recitalist
E. Power Biggs
The attendance was so large that people had to sit outside of the narthex area as they attempted to hear.