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Display pipes removed for refurbishment
10 August
Emily and I removed the 27 front display pipes (which are, in fact, dummies), to my own and my mother’s garages (!) where, over the coming months, several layers of poor quality paint will be carefully removed by hand before they are spray-painted in metallic silver Mercedes car paint!
Pipes retrieved from Cotton
15 July
Today I went with our organ builders, M C Thompson go to St Wilfred’s, Cotton to remove and preserve around 200 delicate pipes while we wait for permission from the Archdiocese to use them at All Souls.
Software specification design finished
20 June
I finished designing the software specification, which has been delivered to the software builder (the organ’s stop control system will be operated by a modern programmable software system rather than the old switchgear, which had completely worn out).
Work started in the workshop
New electromagnets fitted on a soundboard
2 June 2014 Work starts in the workshop. The small components for the main wind chests and soundboards are being refurbished – starting with the pallet motors – 450 mini bellows made of wood and sheepskin, and all the new parts have been ordered – mainly around 1,300 electromagnets.
All Souls Organ 