CLEVELAND — The organ belonging to the Cleveland Orchestra recently underwent some extensive renovations.

Todd Wilson, the organ curator at the Cleveland Orchestra, said these renovations will make his job significantly easier to do.

“So much of music performing is finding the right head space between focus and relaxation and not over-thinking it,” Wilson said. “When you can find that zone, that’s often for me and a lot of musicians when we do best.”

Wilson said, from an organist’s perspective, the addition of a new button known as a sequencer will bring the century-old organ up to 21st-century standards.

“Just that little button down there makes life so much easier in your head cause you're not worried about before you start so much,” he said. “You can do a billion things really easily and you never have to and never have to take your eyes off the conductor or the music.”

Ian Mercer, the production manager for the Cleveland Orchestra, said aside from the sequencer, the list of renovations this historic instrument needed was extensive.

“The instrument was going through some choppy waters for the last 15 years or so, where its electronics were becoming a little bit less and less predicable,” Mercer said. “There were things called cyphers, where notes stick a long time. There are random sticking keys, glitches in the console that didn’t do justice to the quality of the instrument in general.”

Now, Mercer said the organ is in tip-top shape and will hopefully provide beautiful music to concert-goers for years to come.

“Now, because we have replaced all of the electrons and plugs and everything else we know that we have great security with our systems, and the pipes will get to ring true and not be encumbered by electrical issues,” he said.

You’ll be able to hear the organ in action in December and again in April.

Mercer said the April performance will be the organ's first significant public showing.