Just like your car or your house, a pipe organ needs regular repair and maintenance, and it’s time for regular service of LCH’s two Beckerath organs—the main organ and the small continuo organ. On Monday, May 8, Hans-Ulrich Erbslöh and his assistant, Bernd Becker, arrived from Germany to do that work. Also helping is Steve Hoover, an organ builder and the husband of Barry Wenger, our organist and director of music and liturgy.
Hans first came to Honolulu in 1975 to help Rudolf von Beckerath install and voice the main organ, and he has returned several times since to perform regular maintenance. At right, Hans (top left) and Bernd work on one of the pipes of the continuo organ which Steve (bottom) observes.
For much more about the work they will do on LCH organs and several other organs around the state and a full history of LCH’s Beckerath organs, see “The German organbuilders are here!” on Kathy’s blog, “Yet Another Year of Insanity!”