Organ restoration contract signed

The contract with the organ-building workshop from Elbląg has been signed. The first stage of the restoration of our 1878 organ covers new bellows, repairs to the wind chests and cleaning the façade pipes. The cost is one hundred and twenty thousand złoty.

This is the same workshop that surveyed the instrument last autumn and — interestingly — the successor to the very firm that built the organ nearly one hundred and fifty years ago. The documentation from that time has survived in the workshop's archive.

The work will begin at the start of October and continue until spring. The organ will be partly dismantled, and the larger parts will go to the workshop. During the restoration a replacement instrument will be placed in the church — a digital one, borrowed for the entire period of the work.

For the first few days, before the replacement instrument has been set up and tuned, the singing at Mass may be unaccompanied. We ask for your understanding, and for patience from our organist.

The amount collected covers the first stage in full. The second stage — restoring the console and tuning the whole instrument — will require another appeal; we will present the plan once the work is complete.