How many folks out there have their own pipe organs at home?  Would
you like to share descriptions of those instruments?  (It might serve
as a guide to others just beginning such a project.)
 
As a start, here is the organ I put together during high school.
It was in the basement and was a "zero-cost" instrument.  It was once
recorded by a local organist and was given away after I left college.
 
GREAT (tracker action, slider chest from ca. 1890 Barkoff)
 8' Stopped Diapason (ca. 1920 Kimball)
 8' Salicional (ca. 1905 Lyon & Healy)
 4' Octave (ca. 1906 L.D.Morris; write-up in very first "Diapason")
 2' Fifteenth  (L.D.Morris Sw. Violin Diapason)
 
Positive (?) 1-rank e.p. unit chest home-built in "Holtkamp" style
 8' Flute (CC-BB Barkhoff st. wood; C-up Hinners 4' open metal non-harm)
 4' Coupler
 
Pedal
16' Bourdon (L.D.Morris, CCC-GGG horizontal)
 8' Bass Flute (from 16')
 
Tremulant
 
No other couplers or accessories.  Console chasis from L.D.Morris organ.
No Swell box.  1/2 h.p. Orgoblo (minus 1 fan to lower the pressure!)
The 4-rank slider chest had been in a chicken coop for about 8 years
and needed only 4 new pallet springs; it never leaked or stuck.  The
Hinners flute came from a 1m/6r tracker and was very nice.  It was
polished spotted metal, non-harmonic, with slightly arched upper lips
and blended with everything.  For a while, the organ had as its only
pedal stop a "Regal" made from an old Vox Humana sitting on a chest
made of a CC Stopped Diapason pipe; the pedal keys pushed directly
on dowels that opened the values.  The sound was fairly awful.
 
So, who has a better home pipe organ than *that* one???!!!???
 
Larry Chace ([log in to unmask])