Great Neck, NY

Pipe Organ Rebuilding Process (Slideshow)

Choir 1) Reservoir leather before restoration Choir 2) Cleaning reservoir before re-leathering Great 1) Reservoir re-leathering in place Great 2) Secondaries restoration at our facility Great 3) Spacers glued and clamped Swell 1) Original wiring before removal Swell 2) Collapsing pipe toe before restoration Swell 3) Removing bottom boards Swell 4) Secondaries and pitmans exposed Swell 5) Re-leathering secondaries Swell 6) Re-leathered Pedal secondaries Swell 7) Fagotto primaries re-leathered and clamped Swell 8) Secondaries prepared for shipment back to church Swell 9) Re-leathering reservoir Swell 10) Newly re-leathered corners Swell 11) Reinstalling secondaries Swell 12) New wiring for chest magnets Swell 13) Rewired chest magnets Swell 14) Primaries prior to adjustment Swell 15) Vox door mechanism rebuilding Console 1) Before restoration Console 2) Couplers before restoration Console 3) Drawknobs before restoration Console 4) Original pneumatic components Console 5) Console emptied for restoration Console 6) New console components installation

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Well, at least the organ chamber is clean!

Great Neck Community Church Great Neck, NY   1950 M.P. Moller Opus # 8157 III/36

Pipe organ rebuilt, tuning and maintenance by Elsener Organ Works, Inc.