Fears for future of UK's church organs amid widespread neglect (UK) 11/Mar/2026 скачать в хорошем качестве

Fears for future of UK's church organs amid widespread neglect (UK) 11/Mar/2026

More than 400 of the UK's church pipe organs are being junked or falling silent due to neglect every year. The organ preservation charity Pipe Up has carried out a survey and says five pipe organs each week are going to landfill. Another four a week are ceasing to be played because of a lack of maintenance. "A cultural catastrophe is staring Britain in the face: the imminent loss of its pipe organs," a spokesperson said. George Allan, the chairman of Pipe Up, has a store of homeless organs in a redundant church in Spernall in Warwickshire, near Redditch. He said many were being thrown out needlessly. "A full organ rebuild of a moderately sized instrument will cost more than £300,000 but we can often get nearly playable organs back into use… for less than £1,000," he said. Many organs, he added, could be saved with just a couple of days of specialist attention. #churchorgans #churchorgansUK #churchorgansdemise #churchorgans2026