The project
The organ had not had a full mechanical overhaul in over four decades: reservoir and windchest leather had perished to the point of audible wind leaks, several tracker connections had worked loose enough to affect touch, and years of incremental "quick fixes" had left the wind system unstable under load. Every original pipe was retained and cleaned rather than replaced, including a full rank of facade pipes that had been silenced (made non-speaking, for display only) at some point in the organ's history — restoring them to speaking condition required correcting toe holes that had been crimped shut. All leather work (reservoirs, wind trunks, pouch boards) was fully releathered, and the original tracker action was disassembled, cleaned, and regulated to its original touch rather than converted to any modern action type.
The restored specification matches the organ’s original 1889 stop list exactly, cross-checked against the surviving original console nameplates before any replacement pipe was voiced.
