How I Built My Pipe Organ: Project History - Part 1 

Awesome! Can’t wait to do something like this one day.

Good job! I also have the same disease - I installed a 1900 Harrison & Harrison (Durham, UK) in the barn of my house in France but was disappointed at the lack of anything above 4ft. I wanted at least a 15th, so I added key contacts with the idea of using a direct electric chest for the 15th. Why stop at a 15th? So I added a J W Walker 3-rank unit organ which with further extensions has added 10 stops. The JWW organ I have designated a "Choir Organ" and is a floating division playable from either Great or Swell. I haven't documented my work as you have done, but the end result is a 23 rank organ which is played every day - well worth the effort! Hope yours gets finished soon.

Oh my, that organ is beautiful!!! I have a great room with a 36’ ceiling…without the carpet, the acoustics are amazing. If I was about 30 years younger I would be fingering out how to fit a pipe organ in this amazing space. 😉

Good to see someone else doing an organ project, I have been working on a four manual twenty rank theatre organ project for about 12 years and have six ranks playing, look forward to seeing further videos. Garth Stevenson NewZealand

I have somewhat of a silly question I suppose: The pipe organ uses a blower to feed wind into the bellows, they regulate and provide the air to the windchests and pipes, allowing them to speak. Assuming this is a closed system, what happens when the blower is running but no one is playing or no stops are selected, where does all this air go? Do the bellows get rid of the air? What about when you select a stop and the bellows start sending air to that specific windchest? What if no one plays it? Does the windchest now gets rid of the extra air?

Best of luck, and thanks for sharing!

I also am interested in doing this, wondering where you get your pipes and counsels? I have found several sites to purchase pipes, but it is very expensive even for used pipes. I also have not found very many windchests, so I figured I would have to build my own.

How much are you financially invested into the project?

The arrogance……….the title should read “ How I ASSEMBLED”……………