What happened to the organ? Following a great deal of fund raising and concert activity in the late 1980's, the Steering Committee had the funds on hand to have the organ removed from the Auditorium and safely packed before the Minneapolis Auditorium was demolished to make room for the new Convention Center.
The Crystal Court downtown has that potential. An ideal example of how such an instrument might function exists in the former Wanamaker Store (now Macy’s) in downtown Philadelphia, where a pipe organ nearly three times the size of the Minneapolis Kimball is kept in tip-top shape, plays 45-minute programs twice daily, every day, and is featured in many other special events throughout the year: If we could find a similar sort of space in Minneapolis where a general public could experience the Kimball organ’s music without necessarily ‘going to an organ concert’.by simply being in the vicinity when the organ is played, and hear it sometimes almost by chance.then we could get going on a vision and the necessary fundraising to accomplish it. That situation remains today, making it difficult to justify expenditure of the millions ($$) that would be necessary to bring the Kimball back to life. Unfortunately, this was a compromise destination, understood at the time because, as in the old Auditorium, use of the organ (should it have been made to function) in the new Convention Center would continue to be extremely rare, limited by the many other uses to which the Convention Center space is put.which uses usually have no need for organs or organ music, no matter how entertaining.
Chambers were designed and built there, and it is in those that the organ’s components are stored today. What about a future for “The Voice of Minneapolis”? When the Kimball was removed from the old Auditorium, the only reasonable public space into which the instrument could be accommodated was the new Convention Center. "The Voice of Minneapolis" The Great Kimball Organ
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