The software has now been ‘signed off’ as being in full working order by our software engineer and all the electric connections now work perfectly.  In addition last week the final adjustments were made to the wind trunking, and the bottom octave of the Great Open Diapason 8′ was fitted and connected. The small soundboard for the Great Tierce pipes is being made in the workshop and will be fitted this week together with the Great stop motors. By the end of the week all the Phase 1 ‘working parts’ will have been fitted and tested and the console should be finished off and work can begin on fitting the lower casework.

At home, I have now finished removing at least three layers of old paint off two of the three sets of display pipes and washed them. They are now stacked up in my porch ready for the first set of nine to be taken for painting. The plan is that they will be sprayed in a bright pipe-metal colour by a specialist paint shop in Bromsgrove and by the time they are completed, I will have the final set ready for delivery to them.

When each set returns, I will gild the pipe-mouths, and once all twenty-seven pipes are all done, they will be ready for installation in the completed organ case – which will be the final part of the Phase 1 project.

The completed upper case

The bottom pipes of the Great Open Diapason now in place

A porch full of pipes!