Calm Before the Storm

It’s just before 8am, and everything is calm. In just a few minutes, Goulding & Wood will arrive to begin dismantling the organ in a flurry of activity over the next few days. This calm is incredibly moving, partly because I know that when the organ returns,...

The Details, Details, Details

Last week, I sent a dozen pictures to the organ builder like the first picture below: the “mouth” of the pipes in the façade of the organ. As you can see in the second picture below, there are a few pipes that have buckled over the past 40 years because of...