Sanctuary Renovations and Organ Replacement: Photos May 16 - 20, 2005 - Part 1

Installing the ladder for the access hole from the lower to upper chamber.on the west side

Building the rack that will hold these 1930 Wurlitzer pipes in the upper west chamber. They will be installed horizontally, exactly as they are seen here. The "stops" in the foreground will be inserted into the top of each pipe.

John on the left and Glen on the right building the base for the new lectern. The base will rest on the chancel steps.

Installing the 2 wind lines for the organ chambers on either side of the altar. The wind lines are routed from the organ blower pit at the crawl space level on the west side of the chancel through that west wall, then through the north wall of the chancel crawl space into the crawl space under the altar, and then to each organ chamber.

Leveling the lectern base before finishing it.

The first look at the rough pulpit base.

The ladder and sliding access door to the upper west organ chamber.

Installing an air regulator on the ceiling of the west lower chamber.

Joe playing Atlas, holding up the air regulator, not the world.

Installation complete.

Initial pipe installation in the east lower chamber.

Initial pipe installation in the west lower chamber.

Initial raising of a pipe for the upper west chamber ...

... and loading it into the chamber from the lift.

Sanding the finished top of the lectern base.

A pipe placed on the lift for raising to the upper west chamber.

Loading that pipe into the chamber.