A file photograph from 2004 shows Notre Dame's organ. Stephane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images Latry had, in his words, lived with the organ “day and night” since joining the cathedral in 1985.

Notre Dame's organ was blessed and awakened in a symbolic resurrection during the cathedral's reopening ceremony. The organ's 8,000 pipes were disassembled, cleaned and tuned following the 2019 fire.

The Notre Dame cathedral is seen in Paris, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. Louise Delmotte / AP ... The cathedral's 8,000-pipe organ was also used to respond to the archbishop's invocation, ...

It took months of painstaking cleaning and decontaminating, but on Saturday, the majestic tones of the Grand Organ of Notre Dame rang out once more. Skip to content. NOWCAST NewsCenter 5 at 11.

The Great Organ of Notre Dame, pictured on Nov. 29, survived the 2019 blaze but required extensive restoration.