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Organ
Renovation Photos
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the stoplist and narrative description of the project, click
here.
New chest
and pipes going in
Offset chest for bass end of English Horn
and support rack.
New chest as installed in chamber, from
above and below
David G. Fabry installing Viola Celeste
pipes; LtoR: Cor d'Amour, English Horn, Viola,
Viola Celeste
Bass of English Horn (Viola Celeste in
background)
Commemorative
plaques:
The mounted plaque was presented to the
Hendersons. Both were made by David G. Fabry.
Console
Lid:
Photos from
the shop:
Viola
Celeste Pipes
Cor d'Amour
Pipes
In the shop
David G. Fabry and Grant Ellis unpacking
Cor d'Amour
Cor d'Amour 16' range (installed)
English
Horn Pipes
New
Windchest Under Construction
(David Gustav Fabry, builder of the new
chest and re-builder of the console is visible in the photo
above.)
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Console views (before and after)
Details: 1) Keyboard cheeks - solid
walnut 2) Division names cut
into walnut expression shoes and pedal sharps (walnut,
capped with ebony)
Culver Logo on side panels
Details of rocker tab controls
Left drawer: controls for
Zimbelsterns, Pedal Divide, Chimes, ventils, Vox box;
Right drawer: pencil tray and a cup rest!
Console side views: 1) Cabinet in side panel 2) Detail: Midi
ports, Zimbelstern controls.
Various views of the console with
work in progress.
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Re-leathering action in wind chests.
Old Pouches (leather valves that go
under the individual pipes); New pouches below.
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Left:
Old pneumatic Relays in Swell Division.
Right:
New solid-state relay for Swell and
Pedal. (Red manila strips are added to
insulate
adjacent boards from one another.)
Old basement combination "memory" system.
New
console memory system |
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Console Removal: 1) Stop knob
action 2) Stop
contacts 3) All the spaghetti that used to
connect the console to rest of organ.
Old coupler lift pneumatics (center of
photo)
Empty Console shell, ready to remove.
Console Frame under reconsruction
Warped, deformed, cracking pedal frame
Hard
to see, but left edge of old pedal is
splitting Replacement
pedalboard  New
wiring on the chest (replacing old cloth-wrapped
wires).
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Dave Fabry Sr. being funny
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Choir chamber renovation
Annex to the Choir division chamber, for accommodating
new ranks
Just inside the choir annex: 1) New 7-inch pressure
reservoir for English Horn and Cor d'Amour 2)
Shade actions (three per chamber) 3) Peterson
relay for Choir & Great divisions (during
installation) |
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