Mechanical Organ Building: 2006

Monday, June 12, 2006

One of the many shots of yours truly at the Rollcutter Rendezvous. Superbly organised by Peter and Rosemarie. Good weather, good friends, good food....good everything.

This shows the line up after replacing the buffer washers. Now............another sixty or so pipes !!

I have just spent four, very enjoyable days, at the Rollcutter Rendezvous.More of that later. My skeleton "Topsy" midi organ developed a loud mechanical tapping noise on some of the notes.The picture shows the problem !! Several of the solenoid buffer washers have been compressed to the point where they did not recover. Today they were all exchanged for washers made from a wool felt specially imported from France. At the moment they are on life test. They are much quieter and seem to be lasting very well.

Thursday, June 01, 2006

Solenoid wiring completed. It has been a very tedious day.
Wires are multi coloured (from a printer cable) and very difficult to identify.
Hope they can carry enough current. Nous verrons as a certain person would say !!
Maybe, tomorrow, I can complete a small wind chest and play some music.

Valve stems and heads fitted. Tomorrow, the wiring.

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Solenoids have now been fitted. Next are the valve stems and heads. First, a short holiday in Poland with friend Luka. Valve stems must wait until Tuesday !!

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Pipes fitted to wind Chest Lid and stabilisers fitted.

Monday, May 22, 2006

Drill setup for drilling the pipe sockets in the wind chest.Template was printed on an inkjet from the PC. Chuck guard was removed to give a clear view whilst taking the picture !!!