The organ in St. Maria Empfängnis
in Solingen-Merscheid Germany

Oh these Englishmen!

This casually spoken sentence was spoken a lot of times in summer and autumn 2008. But let us start at the beginning.

In the sixties my home parish Merscheid bought a second-hand organ. I watched the installation as often as I could and I suppose that my profession would not be as it is without having watched this event.

In autumn 2008, the organ could no longer be played and had to be replaced. The specialist for organs of the archbishopric in Cologne, Mr. Eckhard Isenberg, favored the buy of a second-hand organ as best solution. Especially the buy of the „Conacher Orgel“, with its romantic disposition, the gravity of the base sounds, the light lyric register in the swell-box and the brilliance of the reed stop would not only be an enrichment for the parish, but for the whole organ scenery in Germany

This were a few notes from the report of Mr. Isenberg of August 2007.

In summer 2008, the merchant Andreas Ladach (Wuppertal) delivered the Conacher organ from Liverpool in all its several parts. We looked at photos to examine, renovate and complete the several parts of the organ. During this time, we often heard the above mentioned sentence.

At the beginning of November 2008, the instrument was brought to Solingen and inaugurated December 14, 2008 (6 weeks after its installation)

Disposition of the organ