Md. Church Organ Repaired In Time For Christmas

BALTIMORE (AP) --  A Baltimore church has its organ fixed in time to play Christmas music. 

It took six months of work, but the 150-year-old organ at Baltimore's St. Ignatius Roman Catholic Church is working again.

Repairing the organ cost $475,000. The refurbishing was handled by Patrick J. Murphy and Associates Pipe Organ Builders of Pennsylvania, which took apart and rebuilt the organ. 

The church's organist for the past 27 years, Tim Murphy, had been repairing the organ with duct tape and playing music an octave higher or lower to avoid missing notes. Murphy says the organ now sounds "ravishing."

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