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March

Picture
A note from that time read: (The first photos of the Swell division are only just appearing because I was too much of a coward to face the climb up and the walk along the "plank" into the swell chamber before a handrail was built. I asked Domink how he coped with heights when building organs. "Not so difficult," he said. " I am a parachutist". - Jenny)
(Move your mouse over the pictures to read the captions - these have yet to be finished but they are coming!)
The scharf stop consists of 4 ranks and, like the cornet, must be stopped with cotton wool during tuning
Temperature inside the organ is kept to a constant 23 ° celsius (73 °F)
Trompete 8' reeds, which look like small funnels, are next in line for tuning
Work on voicing must be fitted in around workmen setting up the auditorium for other concerts
A closer view of the action around the crescendo and swell pedals
The kickboard has been removed temporarily to make adjustments to the action
A birds'eye view of some of the swell pipes. Note the baby bourdon 8' pipes in the centre
Not for the faint-hearted - the view from "the plank".
The top of the hautbois
Seats of the auditorium are just visible through the shutters
Bourdon 8 wooden pipes are like miniature versions of the 16' bourdon
There are 8 pipes for each note of the plein jeu stop
Another bird's-eye view of the Swell layout
These Bourdon 8' pipes range from taller than humans to...
... as small as fingers
Part of the mechanism on the ledge outside the Swellbox which opens and closes the shutters
and a closer view
Hautbois and Clarion
Looking out from the Swell to the access ladders
Pommer
A view from the walkway to the swell, looking at the tops of the pedal reed pipes
The bombardes with their tops mitred to fit in the space
Fagott 16' pipes are protected from dust by caps of black gauze
From the swell walkway again looking down the throats of the pedal reeds
The pedal 16' posaune and 32' kontraposaune with wooden resonators
Looking up to the posaune and kontraposaune pipes
racker rods seen from below the projecting bombardes
What looks like an angular box is actually the wind trunking leading upwards

How to tune a cornet stop without going crazy

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.

April

Viewing of the Organ and new seats in the Town Hall auditorium during the open day in April 1997 for the new Christchurch Convention Centre. The public of Christchurch were able to see (but not hear - for that they must wait until May!) the completed organ during an open day. Short talks about the instrument were given to the visitors by organ curator, Martin Setchell. And later in private, Alois Schwingshandl, assistant to the voicer, puts the organ through its final test stages.
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