Month: July 2018

We’ve come a long way from stripping down..

To slowly rebuilding…

and now to putting the case back together…

There’s just one thing left to do…

The next thing to repair is the stops.  These are the pull out ‘buttons’ on the front of the organ that effect the sound produced.  These are basically working but the leather undersides have eroded and fallen off.

There are two types, metal (adjustable) and wooden (fixed).

Here’s attaching the leader to a metal stop slide.

Here’s two completed wooden ones.  You can see the tiny nails that had to be extracted and then put back.  Any old decaying leather has to come off and the pins pried out with a driver.

Here are the completed stop slides.  That took a while doing 1 or 2 every so often.