![]() After the organ was put back together, I played it for a few hours and I was very happy with the sound – definitely a keeper. Over the next week, I made some permanent and temporary repairs to the organ to make it more playable, in case it was not worth ordering the parts. ![]() The entire organ was dismantled and labeled for the trip back home. There were a few broken stops, but to my delight all of the parts were kept. So I briefly looked it over, making sure all the Sub Bass reeds and Harp Aeoline reeds were in place, and then bought it blindly with the risk that there could be a serious issue with the reed block with the type of ciphers I could hear. I could hear the hissing of air everywhere, and ciphers sounding on many notes. When I sat down to play it, no matter how fast I ran on the treadles, very little sound would come out. The feature that had me spend most of the day driving to bring it home was the 2’ Harp Aeoline in the bass, since I liked the sound of it from the time I was first introduced to it at the Lee Conklin Reed Organ Museum in Hanover, Michigan. ![]() When I first saw it, I was surprised at the compact size of the instrument. ![]() It remained in one of the entrances/lobby areas of the church for anyone to play that wanted to. It was indicated that the organ was never used in the church sanctuary, and it was probably a donation from some time ago. This is my next restoration project, another Karn organ that I bought from a church east of Toronto, in the beautiful town of Cobourg.
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