OKLAHOMA CITY -- Audiences are frequently amazed to hear what sounds like the Tabernacle organ accompanying the Mormon Tabernacle Choir during performances on its concert tour, which began June 18 and concludes June 30. The final performance on the tour will be Monday evening, June 29, at Denver's Red Rocks Amphitheater.

Simple logic says the 50-ton Tabernacle organ is about as unmovable a musical instrument that exists, but its sound is transported fairly easily. In fact, all it takes is two men and a truck. And a lot of technical know-how.

The choir travels with a digital electronic church organ.

"It's a Rodgers organ that has a custom four-manual console that weighs about 1,000 pounds," said David Bagley of Heritage Church Organ Co. in Orem, Utah. He and Jeff Hansen transport and set the organ up in each venue, then take it down and haul it to the next concert.

"The organ has 28 speaker cabinets that we fly on a truss about 30 feet above the choir's heads."

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