Restoration is now beyond 50% complete

These photos show the restoration of the Choir division (pipes played by the bottom keyboard) wind chest and restoration of the primary valves of the Swell division (played by the 3rd keyboard). Restoration of the E.M. Skinner organ is now more than 50% complete.
Just as described in the Nov 13 update, the Choir division wind chest has been completely restored. Here we see it upside-down with all components reassembled and installed. Lead tubing cut to length and flared, all done by hand. These will be precisely bent and installed within the chest connecting two pressurized air channels. The Choir division chest upside-down with the pouch rails also upside-down to view the leatherwork. As in the Nov 13 update for Swell division chest 2, the brown leather disks are the pouches, which move up and down by pneumatic pressure when engaged by the organist. The smaller white disks are felt and leather valves glued onto the pouches, which tightly seal the pneumatic channels when a pouch is not being engaged. Each piece is hand punched and glued together before being glued to the wooden pouch rails.The restored primary of Swell division chest 2. The primary action is the series of tiny moving parts which engage all the other components within the chest when a note is played by the organist. Each of the shiny brass wires you see are threaded and on them (not visible, as they are within the chest) are small round valves of felt and leather; each valve is held in place at precise increments by leather nuts, which allow for proper adjustment. Also note the white leather gasket along the left edge of the wood. Every tiny piece has been disassembled, had new leather glued in place, reassembled, and installed. Beautiful craftsmanship by the team at Quimby Pipe Organs, exactly as E.M. Skinner did it 100 years ago.Here we see the threaded brass wires further into the action of the primary. The tip goes through the brown leather pouches and threads into a tiny leather nut on the other side. When a key is pressed signal is sent to the corresponding electro-magnet on the primary, which exhausts a tiny pneumatic channel, which then moves the tiny valves on the brass wire (thus moving the wire itself), which moves the pouches. So many parts, all restored by hand, and all precisely adjusted for instantaneous movement when a note is played.