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16 February 12 (video taken February 10) |
Welcome
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 in the Christchurch Town Hall, New Zealand |
How to tune a cornet stop without going crazy. . . |
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 Dominik prepares the Cornet pipes, which have been assembled temporarily in the blower room. |
 Because the Cornet stop has five ranks of pipes, it would be impossible to tune or voice each rank while the other ranks were sounding, so. . . . |
 Dominik has to take four of the five pipes for each note and silence them. . . |
 . . .by putting cotton-wool in the mouth of each pipe. The still-speaking one is then played, and tuned. |
 Pipe-by-pipe the cotton-wool is removed and swapped around until all pipes have been individually voiced and tuned. |
 Here the Cornet pipes wait in line behind the Principal pipes in the Hauptwerk for tuning. |
Installation
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February 12,
1997