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Gluing up the stock

We're laminating 8/4 poplar for resawing into vertical-grain strips for fabricating the 8' Principal. Vertical-grain construction takes more time but gives greater dimensional stability.


Gluing up the stock

Opus 4 for the University of Oregon School of Music Photos

What we're replacing

Keydesk coming together

Case coming together

Swell shutters

Pedalboard

Key action coming together

Brustwerk chest going in

Roller boards

Ribs-R-us

The instrument in place at the U of O

Voicing underway

Hauptwerk 4' Octave

Back view

More drawknobs

Facade pipes going in

Completed Regal resonators with blocks

The finished instrument

8' Principal test pipes

Gluing up the stock

For the long pipes

Hand-crafted organs customed designed in the historic European tradition. We build custom mechanical-action pipe organs of all sizes in historic styles, with special interest in the North German and Dutch tradition.  Restorations of selected instruments.

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