<p>The Clatsop Community College Performing Arts Center's Estey Opus 1429 organ was originally installed at Dr. John Sellwood's home, in what is now Portland's Sellwood neighborhood. A wind instrument with a pitch range of 32 to 8,000 hertz, the organ is powered by a blower in the bottom level of the PAC. It produces air, sending it to the wind chests below more than 1,000 pipes of varying lengths and diameters crowding two of the PAC’s upper chambers above the main stage.</p>

ASTORIA After many years of silence, the Estey Opus 1429 organ at the Clatsop Community College Performing Arts Center (PAC) will gloriously sound again. An inaugural concert for the newly repaired instrument, Saints and Sinners, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2.

Tickets are on sale through www.brownpapertickets.com for $25 with a small processing charge. Tickets are also available at Holly McHone Jewelers, 1150 Commercial St. in Astoria, for $25; cash or check only is accepted at this location. Any remaining tickets will be available at the door on Nov. 2 beginning at 1 p.m. Proceeds from this benefit concert will be shared by the Save the PAC Fund and the CCC Foundation Scholarship Fund.

The concert will feature a presentation by Jason Neumann-Grable, who has worked to repair the organ since last December. He will give a description of his process and a short demonstration of the organs restored capacity.

The concert will also feature two other visiting organists: Christopher Wicks, composer and organist, and Paul Tegels, an associate professor of music at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Wash.

The PAC is located at 588 16th St. at Franklin Avenue in Astoria. For more information, contact Patricia Warren at 503-338-2306 or pwarren@clatsopcc.edu