Notre-Dame de Paris: Organ Restoration Has Begun fsspx.news
The removal of the Grand organ from the Paris cathedral has just started. While the instrument was spared by the April 15, 2019 fire, its condition requires careful restoration which should be completed in 2024.
“It was a very delicate phase, a source of great stress for all of us,” Christian Lutz, consultant technician for historic monuments explained in the columns of Figaro on August 1, 2020.
Restoration work on the large organs began with the removal of the instrument console, made of oak and weighing a half-ton comprising five keyboards for the hands, one for the feet, and 115 stops. Spared by the fire, the instrument is clogged with soot and dust…
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