In collaboration with Scott Smith Pipe Organs and David Wigton Pipe Organs
This project will include:
Restoration of original Skinner mechanisms present in the current instrument
Aquisition of appropriate vintage and new pipework
New Great and Pedal windchests in Skinner style
New Echo division under Trumpet en Chamade
New console from R.A. Colby with Peterson solid state system
A Visualizaton of the New Great Division of 10 stops. The organ will have a 16' Open-Wood in the pedal again!
The pouchboards as releathered in the 1960s. The pouches were not Skinner Style.
The previous work (other than a few quick fixes) had been done in hide glue so the clean-off was relatively simple.
The Pouchboard cleaned for releathering. The new pouches are waiting to be glued on.
The finished pouchboard. Each pouchboard is for one half of a rank of pipes.
Ken releathering the stop action primaries.
Ken fitting the stop-action with a new pillow-gasket. It is leather, fleecy-sdie up, wrapped around felt.
The primary action of the choir chest awaiting disassembly.
The primary and secondary valves which evacuate the note channel on the chest to outside pressure.
The original diaphrams on the primary. The leather was intact, but on its last legs.
The gasket revealed that there had been a small amount of water damage to this chest.
The primary openned up. The lead tubes had been replaced with hollow dowels.
Fitting the components with new packing leather gaskets.
New leather on the primary with the two halves fitted back together.
A shot showing the fiber washers in which the valve stems thread on the leather diaphrams. This will be closed by a paper backing.
Fitting the valves back on to the primary. We blow into the back of the leather diaphram to push it out, making it easier to thread.
The valves in place with their new nuts.
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