Now the stoppers must be modified to ensure they are tight. The pipes are also sanded in preparation for painting (in this case) to match a color already in the church.

Light wood pipes are from the original practice organ. The 6 fatter pipes on the left will replace notes 1-6 of the original. The original pipe #1 will be cut off to become pipe #7. The rest will be cut off in sequence to make them all fatter to produce more sound.

Just four more to cut off!

Working down from the smallest to the largest pipes, the small ones have been shortened.

Now the stoppers must be modified to ensure they are tight. The pipes are also sanded in preparation for painting (in this case) to match a color already in the church.

Light wood pipes are from the original practice organ. The 6 fatter pipes on the left will replace notes 1-6 of the original. The original pipe #1 will be cut off to become pipe #7. The rest will be cut off in sequence to make them all fatter to produce more sound.

Just four more to cut off!

Working down from the smallest to the largest pipes, the small ones have been shortened.

Faith Rescaling

We were called in to evaluate a very small organ at Faith Lutheran in Prior Lake. Various electronic organ salesmen had declared the organ dead. In just a few hours we resurrected it. It was just in need of a standard service call. We found that it had originally been built for a practice room at Concordia College in Seward, Nebraska. Nobody knew when it was installed at Faith. Since it was designed for a practice room, the bass pipes were much too small to produce adequate bass for a church. We added larger pipes at the low end and cut off the original pipes to make them fat enough to produce adequate bass for the church.