Titchmarsh, Church of St Mary the Virgin
Thomas C Lewis, 1870: 2 manuals, 17 stops
Full restoration, blower installed.
Completed Dec 2016
The keyboards have had a full overhaul. Pedalboard has had a full overhaul. All console woodwork has been restored including the bench. Rebushed jambs. Overhauled catch pedal and provided new catch with additional notches and springing to aid operation; original catch has been retained and stored in the organ. All electrical fittings have been removed from the console and re-sited.
 rollerboard |  rollerboard |  Pedal rollerboard | |
 pedalboard |  pedals |  Melvin working on the pedalboard | |
 Keyboards after repair |  Keyboards under repair |  stop knobs | |
 keys |  Czslaw Ladagorski working on the keys |  keys | |
 pedal coupler rollerboard |  pedal coupler rollerboard |  Pedal couplers and roller valve being restored | |
 Pedal couplers and roller valve being restored |  Pedal squares and manual coupler after repair |  Pedal squares and manual coupler after repair | |
Clean and repaired all pipework. Rounded out and bound stopped pipes that have bulged and fit new cork stoppers. The specification is to be completed with the provision of the Great Dulciana and Swell Bassoon and Oboe.
 New Swell Dulciana | | | |
 New Swell Dulciana |  New Swell Dulciana |  New Swell Dulciana | |
 Andrew Fiddes working on the Swell Trumpet | | | |
 Swell Trumpet |  Swell Trumpet on the voicing machine |  Swell Trumpet | |
Full overhaul of soundboards and unit chests following original pattern. Full overhaul and re-bushing of beams and rollerboards. Steel tracker wires replaced with phosphor-bronze. New buttons and cloths throughout. Double buttons to Pedal horizontal rollerboard. Full overhaul of the drawstops and composition actions. Replaced blower with a new unit in the same position.
 Great soundboard |  Great soundboard |  split pallets | |
 Swell soundboard pallets |  Swell soundboard |  Swell soundboard | |
 Lee preparing leather for pallets |  leather for pallets |  restoring trackers | |
 Tracker before work |  1. David glues the end of the tracker |  2. Inserts the tracker wire | |
 3. David attaches the tracker thread |  4. tracker thread |  5. David winds the tracker thread onto the end of the tracker over the wire | |
 6. He ties off the thread |  7. finishes off with more glue over the new thread |  8. Some of the hundreds of finished trackers. | |
 finished tracker |  roller valves | | |
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 roller valves |  inside the roller valve | | |
 Pedal Bourdon chest |  David working on the Pedal Bourdon chest |  Pedal Bourdon chest | |
 re-leathering soundboard faceboards |  Swell soundboard |  16ft Pedal Open Wood chest | |
 16ft Pedal Open Wood chest |  Great drawstop action |  Great soundboard | |
 Great pallets |  Great pallet springs |  Great and Swell rollerboard | |
 Bourdon 16ft chest under repair |  16ft Pedal Open chest under repair |  Swell pallets | |
 Great split pallets |  rollerboard under repair |  Swell drawstop action | |
 roller valves |  roller board |  roller board | |
 roller valves |  roller valves |  roller valves | |
 Pedal soundboard |  Jaroslav working on the soundboard |  rollerboard under repair | |
Re-leathered reservoir, feeders and concussion. Overhauled wind trunking and made sound.
 concertina trunk |
 reservoir |
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 trunking |
 reservoir |
 leathering reservoir |
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 Lee working on reservoir |
 leathering reservoir |
 working on the trunking |
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 wind trunks being repaired |
 trunk under reservoir |
 soundboard trunking |
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 concertina components |
 reservoir under repair |
 trunking |
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 bottomboard |
 reservoir |
 reservoir ribs |
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 bottom boards |
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 double rise reservoir ribs and top frame |
 bottom boards with backflaps |
 bottom boards with backflaps |
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 feeders being re-leathered |
 feeder hinge restore |
 feeder hinge restore |
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 Pedal chest and link trunking before repair |
 Pedal chest trunk before repair |
 feeders position being measured |
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Improvement to tuning access. Passage board to be set along the side of the swell box and a short ladder from this down to the main passage board.
Repaired areas damaged by woodworm and treated any infestations.
Refurbished the case woodwork
