It’s not often that a church decommissions a pipe organ, but that’s what happened at Church of the Transfiguration on Sunday.
While the church’s pipe organ, which was installed in 1953, hasn’t been played for a couple years, it was time to give it a proper sendoff. The pipes will remain in the church, but the organ itself will be put into storage.
“Everybody likes the pipes,” pastor Mike McManus said, “so we’ll keep them.”
In 2017, a state-of-the-art organ was purchased and dedicated.