Blog
Project updates, articles, and notes from the workshop.
A new Gemshorn Celeste 8'
Pre-voicing a new stop from the pipe maker in Portugal — cutups, nicking and toeholes — with three sound samples of the Gemshorn it was built to complement.
Read more →The GT Fagot 8' finished
Three recordings of the rebuilt Fagot — a stop that was bland and characterless, and now sings.
Read more →Voicing the Great division
Cleaning the Fagot shallots, tonal regulation of the Great for its higher wind pressure, and a voicing chest that now plays MIDI — with the same piece on two different stops.
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
Read more →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 →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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