Organ is covered to protect it against dust

Organ builders this week shrouded our 109-year-old Conacher organ in heavy-duty polythene sheeting.

The intention is not to silence the organist but to protect the instrument from accumulations of dust that may be generated during building work at the back of the church.

Even before the doorway is created for the new toilets, an area of plaster is to be removed from the south-west wall and such particles can be damaging to the mechanism, air ducts and pipes of an instrument as old as ours.

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