We have finished emptying St Cecilia’s Hall after a great deal of hard work and have left the building in the extremely capable hands of our Project Manager.  Now the surveyors can get to grips with the fundamentals of the building so that we know exactly what needs to be done before the serious building work begins.  Things look a little sad, but its exciting to think about the transformation which will happen in the next 2 years.

We have all been rehoused in the main Library and the Library Annexe as well as the Reid Concert Hall and Museum, and are getting used to our new locations.  Now that the central MIMEd team is in three different locations, we will have to work much harder to arrange our usual coffee and cake ‘meetings’!  It feels odd not going to St Cecilia’s every day, but we will get used to it and its great to be at this stage of the project.

All of the instruments have now been safely decanted from St Cecilia’s Hall.  Under Jonathan and Darryl’s watchful gaze, the men from Constantine worked carefully and finished ahead of schedule.

Most of the keyboard instruments are now safely in store and we are grateful to colleagues in Special Collections for sharing their space with us.  A couple of the smaller instruments will be slotted in at the Reid Concert Hall Museum so that our keyboards are not completely out of sight during redevelopment.  Many thanks to all for making this stage of the process go smoothly.

The Euphonicon was perhaps the hardest instrument to get out as it is both tall and extremely heavy.