Sheboygans Holy Name will unveil renovated 1917 pipe organ on Easter Sunday Heres how the congregation gave the instrument its new 21stcentury brain

SHEBOYGAN – Holy Name Catholic Church organist Frank Trcka found he was having to make adjustments nearly every week in playing the congregation’s vintage 1917 Austin 39 rank organ. There were times notes would not play properly or not at all when he pressed a key on the organ’s keyboard. The old cotton-insulated wiring was fraying and starting to short out, Trcka said. It was time to upgrade the instrument, which was donated by the Thill family in 1917 in honor of the Rev. Dominic Thill’s 50th anniversary of ordination. Thill was the lead pastor at the congregation from 1892…