My card is in a striking shade of blue which is unusual in my experience. It shows part of the nave looking west toward the gallery and the organ there. There is no information about the card's publisher on my unused example. The organ of St-Omer is striking for its casework as much as for it's musical aspects. The Piette family of woodworkers spent several years at the beginning of the 18th century building the case. Thomas and Jean-Jacques Defontaines built the organ in 1717. The instrument served its purpose well while being worked on by various builders over the course of 140 years. By 1853 Aristide Cavaille-Coll submitted a proposal for a major reworking of the instrument which was received by the cathedral; that instrument was inaugurated in 1855. Further work was done in 1927, 1973 and 1985, though the instrument still contains pipework from both the 1717 instrument and that of 1855.
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