Pipe Up has today announced a grant scheme to get unplayable pipe organs back into use. It is appealing to organ-lovers everywhere to crowdfund the scheme.
The target is to create a grant pot of £6,000.
Pipe Up will award between six and ten grants of up to £1,000 to pay for professional organ builders to work on nearly-playable or borderline instruments to get them – at least partially – playable again.
The pilot scheme takes aim at a major threat to the nation’s heritage of pipe organs: neglect.
All organs need regular adjustments and minor repairs, and many go out of use because their owners (predominantly churches) can be deterred by scary estimates for major repair, even if minor repairs could get the sound of organ music heard once more.
Major grant-giving trusts don’t fund maintenance and minor repair, but only complete restorations, thus opening up a huge funding gap for struggling church communities. Full details of the grant scheme and how to support it, are on Pipe Up’s website at https://www.pipe-up.org.uk/grant-scheme.
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