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Malette's Off to England Next Year


thebes

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2 hours ago, thebes said:

Better make your reservation Dave, the York Minster's 2 million pound organ restoration will be finished by then.

 

https://yorkminster.org/discover/conservation/organ-refurbishment/

 

Check out these pipes:

 

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=== Hmmm - the one on the left looks like Hallmark Christmas wrapping. I used it last year for several presents  —

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That's a grand instrument. 70 stops is very large, but huge for 1903. There is also a nave organ that I don't know is playable from the choir organ console. They don't mention it in the rebuild. The one that was destroyed in the arson fire of 1830 was a great loss, and dated from 1622. Pipe organs last indefinitely when maintained, with the oldest one still in service dating from 1435. For context, that's almost 20 years before the fall of Constantinople in 1453. 

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