The pipe organ has been a part of the liturgical service at St. Peter’s Cathedral in Charlottetown pretty much since the church was built.

The 75-year-old instrument currently sitting in the cathedral’s organ loft was built using parts of its original organ, installed just 17 years after the church was founded in 1869.

But this relic of the past serves no one without an organist.

“We have people who can play. But none of them wants that responsibility,” said Father David Garrett, rector of the cathedral.

“We’ve been advertising, and we’ve had somebody — well, we’ve had several applications — and the one we thought best was