Updates for August 2025
31 August 2025The Pipe Organ in China Project: Updates for August 2025:
The Project has learned of two new pipe organs to be built by Rieger, which will be installed in the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Conservatory campus in Shenzhen. One is a practice organ, and the other presumably a concert hall instrument. As we receive more details, we will follow up on this development.
We were also pleased to hear earlier this month from Wang Geng in Beijing. Mr Wang told us that he started to build harpsichords in Beijing in 2020. The COVID-19 Epidemic interrupted his work, but he has built three harpsichords modeled on Hertz and Zuckermann instruments, as well as a clavecin brisé (folding harpsichord.) He is continuing his apprenticeship and hopes eventually to make harpsichords in China for sale. A player of the Chinese guqin, he has his own shop for making silk strings, details of which can be found at: http://www.suxinsixian.com/
Mr. Wang’s reason for contacting us was to tell us that TJN2015a, the Feith organ relocated from Germany 10 years ago to the Church of St. Louis in Tianjin, is no longer there. It was been moved to a large modern church, the Hedong Sacred Heart Church, located at 439 Dongxing Rd, Tianjin (this seems to be a satellite town of Tianjin). The Church of St. Louis is now making do with a Viscount Unico P35. We hope this historic church will one day again have a pipe organ. The page for TJN2015a has been updated with the new location.
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