Taylor's Falls

documents the construction of a 19 rank 2 manual pipe organ.

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Location: Wadena, Minnesota, United States

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Bellows

This is one of four regulators (bellows) in the organ. This one handles all the pipes of the Great organ and is 34" x 60". They are all of the "floating top" style with an internal curtain valve. They are constructed of White Poplar plywood with Yellow Poplar trim.

Swell Shades

The swell shades have been completed and erected. The wall that surrounds them and encloses the swell organ will be completed tomorrow and then we will start on the casework.

Friday, February 02, 2007

Swell Pipes

These are the middle C pipes from the ranks that will make up the Swell organ. From left to right they are 8' Flute, 8' Viola, 8' Celeste, 8' Trumpet, 4' Spitz Principal, 4' Koppel Flute, 2 2/3' Nazard, 1 3/5' Tierce. They still need to be cleaned and have new tuning slides installed prior to voicing. Click the picture to see a larger version.

Great Pipes

These are the middle C pipes of the ranks which will make up the great organ. From left to right they are 8' Principal, 8' Metal Gedeckt, 8' Gemshorn, 8' Trompette, 8' Krummhorn, 4' Octave, 2 2/3' Twelfth, 2' Super Octave, III Mixture rank #1, III Mixture rank #2, and III Mixture rank #3. They still need to be cleaned and have new tuning slides installed prior to voicing. Click the picture to see a larger version.

All internal framework, windtrunks, and regulators are finished and assembled in the shop. The pipework inventory has been sorted and the ranks which will be used in the organ have been chosen with very little leftovers from the pipes removed from the church and the Lenore Moberg residence. These 34 trays contain the 19 ranks of pipes which will be used in the organ.