St. Paul's Church, Little Marsden, Nelson, Lancashire.
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Some details
The mechanical actions of this substantial Conacher organ of 1900 were in a deplorable state rendering it almost impossible to play:
dismantling of the rollerboards, square beams and coupling frames revealed that these were probably untouched since the organ had ben installed.
Every part of the mechanical actions from keys to pallets has now been cleaned, re-centred and re-bushed and all of the original threaded iron tracker end wires
and connections have been replaced by new of phosphor-bronze and brass with new leather buttons and woven cloth washers.
During some earlier work, many trackers and leather buttons had been replaced by long wires with modern collets and these have now been replaced by trackers, in the original style.
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| Many years of dirt and grit seizing the squares |
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| Rusted and broken tracker wires |
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| Worn key bushings and sticker ramps |
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| Squares cleaned and re-bushed |
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| Backfalls being overhauled |
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| Re-bushed rollerboards with new axles |
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| Making new wire ends |
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| and whipping with thread |
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Keyboards re-bushed
and with new ramps |
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