Farewell to the Organ.

Our 1883 Wordsworth and Maskell Pipe Organ has gone to hospital. Here are the pictures.

Some Façade Pipes have been removed to take out the shutters of the Swell Box.

Here are the C pipes from which the whole organ will be tuned when she’s mended.

Kathy Drummond ponders the Façade Pipes made of Zinc.

The Keyboard for the Swell pipes

Bent and bandaged pipes awaiting rescue

Soft lead pipes from the Swell Ranks which have begun to collapse under their own weight after 106 years.

More lead pipes awaiting transport to the workshop.

Part of the Linkages of the Action all labelled and ready to go.

Cliff and Kathy sorting pipes

Murray watching Kornelius vacuuming up 106 years of dust.

Not a shipwreck, but connecting pipes to carry air to the Façade Pipes.

General view of the dismantling with the Foot Pedals in the foreground.

Taking the lid off the Swell Box. Kornelius and Murray with the lid, 2 inches thick solid wood (and heritage dust)

Cliff, Kornelius, Murray and Kathy (bottom right) lowering the lid.