Or, how a redundant instrument will be used to expand and revitalize two others ailing...
QuoteWednesday, April 11, 2012
DAY ONE OF A (PIPE) ORGAN TRANSPLANT
PROBLEM: We had an ailing pipe organ that was heading for repairs that would be around $300,000.
OPPORTUNITY: A Protestant church, Trinity Lutheran in Canton, with a much larger instrument was merging and wanted to sell their instrument.
A MATCH: So we purchased their organ and hired the Schantz organ company repair and refurbish our organ and for a bit more investment we could expand our it. The work at the parish began yesterday with the arrival of the Schantz truck.
We had Easter Tuesday Mass before they began work. At the end of the petitions we prayed for the workers and blessed them that they might be safe and do their work well. As soon as we stepped off of the altar they began assembling scaffolding from the ground floor up to the choir loft.
The first piece to be removed was the organ console. We will be using the console from the other organ since it is much larger and more capable of handling the much larger organ this space will hold. The console was sold to St. Vincent Parish along with repetitive sets of pipes we will no longer need and they will expand their organ and replace their console which is also ailing. Win/win!
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Eric
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