French Pull Out the Stops to Repair Notre-Dame Organ

• 08.03.2020, 15:24
•  Europe,  World

A race has begun to clean layers of lead dust from the grand organ of Notre-Dame. Jean-Louis Georgelin, the retired general given the job of overseeing the restoration, aims to hear the organ play on April 16, 2024, the fifth anniversary of the blaze that devastated the cathedral, The Times reports.

The date is in keeping with the deadline set by President Macron, who said that he wanted to rebuild Notre-Dame within five years.

This will be a challenge. The organ, considered to be the finest of its kind in France, if not the world, will have to be taken out of the cathedral before the dust can be removed. Given that it has about 8,000 pipes, 109 stops and five keyboards, the task is immense.

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