We've been cleaning a number of ranks in the Solo-Great division on the Midmer-Losh organ and this video features the beautiful English Horn that plays on 15" of wind.
Each pipe was carefully disassembled for cleaning. Shallots were cleaned and the faces of the shallots made perfectly smooth using very fine sandpaper. The tongues were also carefully cleaned.
The bodies of the pipes were washed and stripped, then given a new clear-coat to protect the zinc and spotted metal.
William Capaldi, who voiced this and many other ranks on the organ, left copious markings on the shallots and bodies of the pipe indicating exactly where the pipe was originally regulated. We took great care to return the pipes to the original voicing marks.
11 сен 2024
