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Project updates, articles, and notes from the workshop.
Blacksburg Presbyterian project · July 2026
Regulators finished, pipe cleaning under way
The wind regulators assembled with new linkages, the metal pipework going through its first cleaning since 1960, and a look at the acoustical work under way in the church.
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Wind regulators
Five wind regulators and a wind control valve stripped down, releathered and restored, plus the walnut draw knob stems for the new console.
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Cleaning and releathering begins
The wooden pipework of the Blacksburg Presbyterian organ arrives in the workshop for cleaning and new stopper leather, and the main chests go to Columbia Organ Works.
Read more →Blacksburg Presbyterian project · April 2026
Dismantling the organ
Three months of planning, then the 1960 Holtkamp comes out of the gallery in three days and travels to the workshop in Rocky Mount.
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