The console (from which the player controls the organ), which was given to us by St George’s Anglican Parish, Whyke, Chichester just over a year ago has now arrived back with us after rebuilding and refurbishing. IT now has 3 manuals (keyboards) and all the stop-knobs for our final specification. Mike and Simon are just finishing off the console wiring before it is connected up to the organ. We now get a much better sense of what the whole job will look like when it is finished.

The rest of the trombone pipes

Now that the blowers have been positioned, it has been possible to fit the rest of the pedal 16′ trombone, which is outside the main case in a section which will eventually contain the Choir division and will be concealed from view.

I will be continuing over the weekend with gilding the sections of the organ case that we now know were originally painted gold and stripping paint from the display pipes before they are finally spray-painted and the mouths gilded.

The Swell and Choir stops