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KY_EnviroGuy

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Mon Aug 3, 2020, 12:35 PM Aug 2020

Notre Dame Cathedral's organ getting 4-year-long cleaning

Notre Dame Cathedral's organ getting 4-year-long cleaning

Pipe by pipe, the organ that once thundered through Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is being taken apart after last year's devastating fire

By NADINE ACHOUI-LESAGE and ANGELA CHARLTON
Associated Press via ABC News
August 3, 2020,

Link: https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/notre-dame-cathedrals-organ-year-long-cleaning-72141886

Excerpts:
PARIS -- Pipe by precious pipe, the organ that once thundered through Notre Dame Cathedral is being taken apart after last year's devastating fire. Amazingly, the 8,000-pipe organ survived the fire, which consumed the cathedral’s roof and toppled its spire. But the blaze coated the instrument in toxic lead dust that must now be painstakingly removed.

The mammoth task of dismantling, cleaning and re-assembling France’s largest musical instrument started Monday and is expected to last nearly four years.

Once restored, it will take six months just to tune the organ, according to the state agency overseeing Notre Dame’s restoration. Its music isn’t expected to resound again through the medieval Paris monument until 2024, to the dismay of the cathedral's dedicated organists.
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The general who leads the agency said the organ, which dates from 1733, will next play again on April 16, 2024, marking five years since the fire.


KY........
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Notre Dame Cathedral's organ getting 4-year-long cleaning (Original Post) KY_EnviroGuy Aug 2020 OP
...if you've ever had a thorough organ cleaning underpants Aug 2020 #1
Yep, that could well be Carson, Dangerfield or perhaps Rickles. KY_EnviroGuy Aug 2020 #2

KY_EnviroGuy

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2. Yep, that could well be Carson, Dangerfield or perhaps Rickles.
Mon Aug 3, 2020, 01:39 PM
Aug 2020

Remember this one?

Art Fern:

How do you get there? Let me tell you friends, how do you get there! You take the San Diego Freeway to the Ventura Freeway. You drive to the Slauson Cutoff, get out of your car, cut off your Slauson, get back in your car, then you drive six miles till you see the Giant Neon Vice-Squad Cop.

I still miss his nightly monologues.

KY........
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