Sanctuary Renovations and Organ Replacement: Photos May 16 - 20, 2005 - Part 3

A bottom view of the "pedal board" on the organ, i.e., that component holding all the foot pedals.

Oliver preparing the "rack board" for attaching to the "toe board" for one of the Antiphonal organ chambers located in the balcony. The "toe board" is the board with the hole in it that the air receiving end of the pipe sets in on top of the wind chest. The "rack board" is located some distance above the "toe board" and holds the pipes in place.

The completed wind lines to the north wall on the right and to the east chambers on the left.

These lines run up to the east side of the altar ...

... and the west side of the altar.

The completed "shutter wall" in the east lower chamber.

These are "Haskells." Organ Building 101 states that if a pipe is capped it will sound at twice its length, i.e., a lower pitch. Haskells are attached in the top of a pipe to give a partial blockage of air that can vary the amount of change of the pitch! The hymnal is shown for size comparison.

Some pipes are attached horizontally to the ceiling of the east lower chamber.

The initial installation of pipes on both sides of the Antiphonal organ in the balcony. The supporting racks are "sculpted" or "scalloped" to the circumference of each pipe.

A closer look.

Soldering of a metal wind line for the upper chamber.

There it is installed.

Building the frame for the finished casework that will cover the lower part of that chamber.

Michigan Environment Control installed a modem in one of the air handling control units so that the unit performance can be monitored and changed from a remote computer, including one of our own.