May 29, 2026 COMISO (RG)

Restoration work on the F.lli Michele and Agostino Polizzi organ in the Basilica S.Maria Annunziata in Comiso (Ragusa) was completed this week. The work, which began in 2025, saw the complete dismantling of the instrument with the exception of the historical case, its transfer to the workshop and complete restoration. 

The instrument is a “full-bodied” organ with two manuals, with mechanical transmission for keys and pedals and pneumatic for register control.

Technically, the organ is equipped with two “windblocks” of the Serassi school, after all, the Polizzi learned the trade precisely when assembling a Serassi organ in the cathedral in Modica.

The second manual is enclosed in an expressive case.

The two manuals are 61 notes and the pedal 27 notes. The recording is full of 8′ bottoms but the sonority remains perfectly enjoyable, clear and bright, not as one would expect from an early 20th century instrument.