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On inspection this instrument was found to be hardly playable, due to the very poor state of the windchest following a previous attempt at repair and a severe attack by woodworm. Of special note is the long compass GG to g fully chromatic making 61 notes, this would seem to indicate that the instrument originates when compasses were experimented with in the late Georgian to early Victorian period. The spare slide was in the position where a Fifteenth would have been, a set of pipes of this character was installed. The octave coupler was clearly not original but thought to be useful so it has been retained and improved. The pipe case had always been grained but was in poor condition, the whole was stripped, repairs carried out then re-grained in the original style. The front pipes are typical of English chamber organs in that they are of half round wood, they were stripped and re-gilded with 23¾ carat gold leaf. |
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