With all of the work we've been doing on the organ and my work schedule, I haven't been able to post an update on our progress for a few weeks, but here it is! Lots of activity and progress, with the inevitable hiccups along the way. The pile in [Read more...]
Another week of installation and an amazing turn-out throughout the week from lots of different people. On Sunday I realized we can see progress in the choir room: the pile of stuff in there is getting noticeably smaller! The new relay in the [Read more...]
It’s been another good week of organ installation progress. Here’s what happened: Moved the parts temporarily stored in the organ chamber for the Bishop’s visit back out into the pews.Completed wiring for the new lights and outlets in the organ [Read more...]
Last week we made quite a lot of progress on our big organ transplant. Again, we had a great turnout of parishioners to help out, and our activities included: Bill Visscher installed the great division wind chest shells on their supports in the [Read more...]
Murray admires the new wind chests for the great and swell divisions. As a way to help reduce the cost of our new Shoenstein organ, the parish agreed to provide some of the labor for the project. Our big task is to install the wiring on the wind [Read more...]
With the installation of our new Shoenstein organ, we also have the task of disposing the parts of our old Moeller organ. All of the parts are now removed and are sitting on the porch of the office. Instead of just carting it all off to the [Read more...]
Installation of our new organ has progressed rapidly in this last week, with lots of help from our parishioners. This week's work included: Completed stripping the old wiring and de-soldering electrical connections from the Shoenstein [Read more...]
Over the last week and a half, we've begun the instillation of our new Shoenstein pipe organ. The activities included: Removal of the Moeller Organ from the organ chamberMoving the partition between the great and swell chambers back 2 1/2 [Read more...]
The new Schoenstein Organ was delivered to Calvary on 2 August 2017. Unlike most other musical instruments, a pipe organ is not (usually) one monolithic instrument - it comes in may parts. The parts of our new organ came in a truck, and Murray [Read more...]