This was a VERY INTERESTING video. As a restorer of Reed Organs (and a couple of Vocalions ) I have a wee bit of knowing of what you were doing. I would love to have been a part of this restoration of this reservoir. You're lucky the former workers used hot hide glue.
I can top that, the original Moller pitman chest for my organ had the primary section along the long side sawed off with a jig or sawzall, removed to releather the primary valves, but they didnt do all of them, and then they tried to glue the whole thing back onto the chest!
I have actually seen that one. It was so bad though, that I had to scrap the chest. It wasn’t even worth remaking because they used a wide sawzall blade and literally nothing lined up anymore. Idiots. They were too lazy to remove the expression shades, so they cut the chest apart to fit it through the chamber entrance. An extra 5 mins removing shades apparently was too much work and too time consuming for them, so they spent even more time destroying the chest
@@jamesp8391 Geez, yeah what kind of idiot thinks they can just GLUE something like the primary assy back on with it's 73 channels that have to be air tight- while IN the chamber with the chest and limited room. The chest was 8 ranks, 9 feet by 6 feet and the chamber only about 9-1/2 feet by maybe 8 feet.
They didn’t know how to drop a Möller primary, because the wooden cap is usually covered with leather, and if one doesn’t know it’s there, then stupidity ensues.
@@JB-td4ei Plus that's not all! every wire to the primary was cut, so when they put it all back together they used electrical tape after twisting the wire ends together... The original blower was replaced probably then- with a 3450 rpm Buffalo Forge blower that SCREAMED!
Fascinating, thank you for documenting and sharing this process in detail. Did they also restore the hand-pump mechanism? If not, what would that entail?
I think Martin Ott may have made a strategic mistake when he restored the instrument. He brought in an "organ restoration expert" from Germany who had an almost fanatical view that nothing should be changed unless immediately necessary. I went through the organ just after the restoration, and could not believe how much work had not been done, including releathering of the reservoir. As I say, I do not blame Martin Ott for this, but it was very unfortunate.
This was a VERY INTERESTING video. As a restorer of Reed Organs (and a couple of Vocalions ) I have a wee bit of knowing of what you were doing. I would love to have been a part of this restoration of this reservoir. You're lucky the former workers used hot hide glue.
I can top that, the original Moller pitman chest for my organ had the primary section along the long side sawed off with a jig or sawzall, removed to releather the primary valves, but they didnt do all of them, and then they tried to glue the whole thing back onto the chest!
I have actually seen that one. It was so bad though, that I had to scrap the chest. It wasn’t even worth remaking because they used a wide sawzall blade and literally nothing lined up anymore. Idiots. They were too lazy to remove the expression shades, so they cut the chest apart to fit it through the chamber entrance. An extra 5 mins removing shades apparently was too much work and too time consuming for them, so they spent even more time destroying the chest
@@jamesp8391 Geez, yeah what kind of idiot thinks they can just GLUE something like the primary assy back on with it's 73 channels that have to be air tight- while IN the chamber with the chest and limited room. The chest was 8 ranks, 9 feet by 6 feet and the chamber only about 9-1/2 feet by maybe 8 feet.
They didn’t know how to drop a Möller primary, because the wooden cap is usually covered with leather, and if one doesn’t know it’s there, then stupidity ensues.
@@JB-td4ei Plus that's not all! every wire to the primary was cut, so when they put it all back together they used electrical tape after twisting the wire ends together...
The original blower was replaced probably then- with a 3450 rpm Buffalo Forge blower that SCREAMED!
Fascinating, thank you for documenting and sharing this process in detail. Did they also restore the hand-pump mechanism? If not, what would that entail?
Also, by the way, Pfeffer, usually had two folds alike.
I think Martin Ott may have made a strategic mistake when he restored the instrument. He brought in an "organ restoration expert" from Germany who had an almost fanatical view that nothing should be changed unless immediately necessary. I went through the organ just after the restoration, and could not believe how much work had not been done, including releathering of the reservoir. As I say, I do not blame Martin Ott for this, but it was very unfortunate.
J.G. Pfeffer! 877-Cash-Now!!
J.G. Wentworth parody lol!!! Thought it'd be funny