PARIS — Pipe by precious pipe, the organ that once thundered through Notre Dame Cathedral is being taken apart after last year’s devastating fire. The mammoth task of dismantling, cleaning and ...

In this Thursday, May 2, 2013 photo, Philippe Lefebvre, 64, plays the organ at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. Despite the advances in organ technology, Lefebvre feels the weight of history in his job.

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 Grand Organ was one of Notre-Dame’s most important objects, with five keyboards and almost 8,000 pipes. It traces its origins to the 1400s , though the current organ is mainly from 1868 and ...

Organ pipes at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, May 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File) Organist Vexo is already dreaming of that day.

I first heard the great organ high in the west gallery of Notre Dame in 1963, as a student on a junior year in France. But earlier I had heard one of its most famous organists, Pierre Cochereau ...

Daniel Bayless, St. Mark’s director of music, said he was watching Notre Dame’s Sunday Mass when he saw news alerts about a fire at that very location. Skip to content NOWCAST WPBF 25 News at ...

Notre Dame cathedral's great organ undamaged by fire that destroyed roof and spire. Topic: Fires. Thu 25 Apr 2019 Thursday 25 April 2019 Thu 25 Apr 2019 at 5:05am.

Olivier Latry, one of the chief organists at Notre Dame Cathedral told NPR that the famous organ will have to undergo “extensive renovation” due to water damage from the April 15 fire the April 15 ...

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.

FILE - Pipes of Notre Dame cathedral's organ are seen during preliminary restauration work, in Paris, France, July 17, 2019. Share Print. Pipe by precious pipe, the organ that once thundered ...