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...

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Beginning Monday, June 2, our organ project will enter a new phase. Throughout that week, the organ builder will be on site, carefully removing and wrapping each pipe and taking them (together with the console) to their workshop in Indianapolis. There, the pipes will...