This week has seen a lot of progress and final tuning and “regulation”(making sure all the pipes are in tune, and that all stops blend together and sound at their best in the Church’s acoustic) begins next week. Virtually all the pipes are now fitted and speaking and the stop motors for the Great are in place and working. Our organ builders have also worked out why our blower motor from our old organ, which was added relatively recently, has always been so noisy. It looks as if its phasing was crossed when it was originally fitted, causing it to run the fan backwards! Now that this has been fixed, it is much quieter.  The bass pipes in the pedal need some adjusting so that their “speech” is prompt, but otherwise, they sound fine, and the main part of the Swell mechanism has been fitted and works well.

Next week, in addition to tuning and regulation, the refurbished pedalboard will be fitted, together with the toe pistons, and the Swell mechanism should be completed. The last significant piece of work in the workshop – the construction of the small wind chest for the Great Tierce should also be done and that will be built into the organ case. The target is to have the organ fully playable by the end of June.