Some Audio by Jerri

Well we coaxed the nice Jerri Bearce and her husband over last night to play the Casavant. She graciously played some cool pieces and let me record with my Canon ZR 200 camcorder. She played a neat loud soft piece, and then another. Then she play a Bach fugue. Then she played a triplet thing, which sounds completely different on the Casavant than when she played it on the Moller Artiste. Which do you like better?
Then she played a hard thing from her past, getting through the first part OK, and trying the ending a little slower. Then she sight-read a last verse for "Morning has Broken" that I had, and concluded with Christ lag in Todesbanden for me. This sounded rather differently on the Moller.
She also tried her luck on the old 2M/P eleven rank Mason and Hamlin reed organ that I have with a chorale and a barn-burner.
Very nice and talented friends we have, right?

Light is working

The organ is pretty complete. I got the light built and balanced the stick with a big book on the back.

Brasso?

Brasso is a busto on the metal pipes, made a music rack light like in the picture of the Kuhn organ in Switzerland.

Tale of Two Organs, TOLD

Put pipes back on the back, so I could play it again. Fixed casavant plastic label. Attach to keydesk. Get email from OHS people, my organs are in the database.

http://organsociety.bsc.edu/SingleOrganDetails.php?OrganID=27084

http://organsociety.bsc.edu/SingleOrganDetails.php?OrganID=27085

Try Brasso on the tin pipes. OK. Glass Wax is no longer made. Can’t find Window Wax reformulation locally. Oh well.

I didn't say it would be easy. . .

Tune again, try tuning mixture, not much luck.

No Tune, No Fun

Remove pipes for David C to tune, he can’t come. Bad Back. Submit to the OHS organ database the Moller and the new location of the Casavant.

Book search

Find out same organ built by Kuhn in Switzerland. Found the organ that mine is based on is for sale again, having been built in 1970. Also found my organ is listed in a book: The Tracker Organ Revival in America. I find the book on AEBBooks and buy it. Hoping page 119 has the info.

David sez they use Glass Wax to polish pipes, but I find it is permanently out of production, was flammable. eBay is the only source for the leftovers. New formulation is called Window Wax, not as good I surmise. I’ll try Brasso.

David also tells about how long and how much it will cost:

There's a one-manual Casavant in Park City that used to be in a chapel near BYU, prior to that on a roller platform in the DeJong Concert Hall, prior to that in the Assembly Hall. It was sort of a chore to tune, as small pipes tended to draw on each other. The first time I went way over my estimate (but there were some unexpected problems, too) and the last time I think I did it in 3-4 hours. Bigelow's standard rate is $55/hour. If that seems prohibitive call and we can discuss other options.