MilCH: Pipe dreams come true at Milwaukee's St. Stanislaus

Pipe dreams can come true. On Feb. 19, the full, rich tones of the organ at St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr Parish and Oratory, Milwaukee, will once again reverberate throughout the building.

After spending approximately four months of work on the organ, Broskowski, who worked on the project with St. Anthony organist, Lee Erickson, admitted he was pleased with the results.

“It is a beautiful church building with wonderful acoustics and a wonderful organ; I am happy to see the results as I have tuned and worked on this organ for the past 23 years,” he said.

Broskowski explained that the organ was last refurbished in 1956 and included many pipes from the original 1893 organ, along with organ parts that were added during that restoration.

“What we did was to clean the pipes and regulate them to produce the proper tone. Then we put in and redid the action of the organ, which is the part that controls the playing of the pipes,” he said. “Then we rebuilt all the bellows with new leathers and we supplied a new control system – this is the part that translates what the organist plays on the keys and pedals and makes the pipes play according to the organist’s wishes.”

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