Back in September, as the pipe organ at Statesboro First United Methodist Church was undergoing its first full restoration and updating process since its installation in 1960, Minister of Music Jackson Borges said: “It is the best instrument for miles around. It can play literature from all of the major time periods. It also has a lot of options to play a really beautiful service — plus it just sounds so good. It truly is one of the best (pipe organs) around.”

Now, two months later, and after each one of the organ’s 1,850 pipes was taken out and individually cleaned, how does the organ sound?

“It is 100% better,” Borges said last week. “The cleaning, the software update, the revoicing of every one of the sounds of the instrument — you get this beautiful, beautiful sound.”

And while the

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