This Monday begins the removal of the large organ with, as a priority, the console keyboard. Complete disassembly of 8000 pipes follows up to en
This Monday begins the removal of the large organ with, as a priority, the console keyboard. Complete dismantling of 8,000 pipes will follow by the end of the year.
The real “courtyard within the courtyard” of the restoration of the Paris Notre-Dame, the removal of its great organ will begin this Monday, the public Institution in charge of the reconstruction of the cathedral announced on Saturday. Scaffolding of 30 meters was placed all around, during July, to allow a smooth removal.
and Then the organ will have to be cleaned part by part. Voices of the cathedral since 1733, the great symphonic organ of Notre-Dame of Paris has 8,000 pipes arranged in 115 games, making it the largest such instrument in France (by number of games).
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When the fire broke out in April 2019, it was not engulfed in flames, received relatively little water during extinguishment, but was covered in lead dust. Some of the parties then suffered from the thermal variations that the cathedral went through since the fire, especially during the heat wave in July 2019. The organ will need a thorough cleaning and restoration that will last between 2021 and 2024.
first the keyboard
The site begins removing the console keyboard this Monday and continues to remove all 8,000 pipes through the end of the year. All items removed will be stored in four leakproof containers. A tender will be announced for the cleaning, restoration and reassembly of the instrument.
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“It is our ambition,” said General Jean-Louis Georgelin, head of the public institution, to return the instrument to the operational state it was in before the fire, and it will take six months to agree and harmonize it.
“Therefore, it was essential, he added, to launch this operation as soon as possible so that the organ could resound in mid-April 2024”, during the Te Deum that is intended to be organized in the cathedral, five years after the fire, in accordance with the wishes of President Macron.
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Thus, at the end of spring, the removal of the scaffolding that surrounded the arrow at the time of the fire began – a huge job that should be completed in September, preparatory work for the dismantling of the large organ was carried out in parallel in a more discreet way.
Updated date: August 3, 2020, 4:58 p.m
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