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Organs in danger => Organs in danger => Topic started by: KB7DQH on October 09, 2010, 08:21:03 PM

Title: Tre`s Saint Nom de Jesus Cathedral, Montreal under threat of demolition!
Post by: KB7DQH on October 09, 2010, 08:21:03 PM
Follows is a link to a .pdf file from the Casavant-Freres website, showing two photographs of this instrument and stoplist...

Valued at $2million CDN  and reportedly would cost half that to move, efforts are underway to save the cathedral from being demolished, the building having been closed by the fire department because of "safety issues"...  Organ was fully restored ten years ago!

Comments to the news articles indicate the public wishes for the organ to be saved if the cathedral can't be...

http://www.casavant.ca/new_temp/anglais/History/Early/0600.pdf (http://www.casavant.ca/new_temp/anglais/History/Early/0600.pdf)
Title: Re: Tre`s Saint Nom de Jesus Cathedral, Montreal under threat of demolition!
Post by: KB7DQH on October 09, 2010, 08:51:35 PM
Also from the Casavant-Freres website, an article written for an English publication from none other than Henry Willis-- on visiting the United States and Canada...

In this article he has an opportunity to visit the organ currently under discussion...

http://www.casavant.ca/new_temp/pdf/12.pdf (http://www.casavant.ca/new_temp/pdf/12.pdf)