When the casework was taken down we found a Cross lying under the Swellbox.  We now know that it was originally fitted to the middle of the top of the case, and when it was cleaned up we discovered that it had originally been coloured gold. We then looked at some of the decorative text and it became clear that some of the script has also been coloured gold. The colouring will be restored and the Cross returned to its original position on the case.

When I began removing the layers of old paint from the front display pipes I found that the pipes had originally been painted gold with some fairly poor quality paint. Today we cleaned up the display pipes and tested out the proposed silver/aluminium paint – but it didn’t really look too good, so I will have another look at that over the weekend.

The new bass pipes for the Swell 16′ Bassoon have been fitted into the Swellbox today and a lot of the intricate wiring for the control systems was done.  With around 2,000 tiny low voltage wires to strip and connect it was a fairly slow job, requiring a lot of care from Mike Thompson, but we got there with a couple of minutes to spare before Friday Evening Prayer started!