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The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment introduces Principal Artist John Butt playing a spectacular bespoke chamber organ, built to recreate …
The wonderful moment when the plastic covering comes off the front pipes. Fabulous pipes once again from Shires Organ Pipes Ltd …
I don’t do much turning but having been let down by a supplier was forced to make some pipe feet…… Click …
Nearly there with the Guildhall School of Music’s continuo organ. Finishing touches include making three small stop knobs from English Boxwood. …
Just started a couple of continuo organs. 3 stops including 8ft Stopped Diapason, 4ft Chimney Flute and the option of a …
First job of 2017 – an overhaul of Malcolm Greenhalgh’s 4-stop hire organ made in 2005. Definitely one of the most …
Sr. Raphael Foster (organist) “Our introduction to Robin Jennings was via Skype. John Cunningham as Client representative was with Robin in …
A couple of weeks of pipe making ahead. This includes making pipe feet and stopper handles. Here are some photos of …
My last gig of this dreadful year today. The Messiah with the Academy of Ancient Music at the Barbican Hall in London. Featuring my ‘Bach’ organ and a brand new harpsichord made by Michael Johnson and myself during lockdown. Tickets can be bought for the live stream starting at 7pm GMT tonight from : www.aam.co.uk or www.barbican.org.uk
Taking the opportunity to service the St Martin-in-the-Fields chamber organ whilst it’s not needed. This instrument is close to my heart as it has my blood on an upper board after my arm got tangled up in a drill in 2013! The hand is fully healed but with very little feeling in the thumb and forefinger where the nerves were severed. 😬
A follow up to cutting the bevel on the front on the pipe, here’s how I router the channel from the cap.
Here’s my jig for cutting the bevel on the front of the pipe. By scoring the back of the plank it generates the cut up so cleaning up is really easy (hope that’s clear!)
