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Finally, after 8 weeks of an agonizing wait and a week and a half of extraction toil, this Allen organ is at my home, albeit in pieces, but here none the less. (Ref. https://organforum.com/forums/showth...ge-Allen-organ)
The 8 week delay was due to insurance issues between the church and the folks at Walker, and the church's new insurance company who apparently never dealt with something like this. In the contract Walker was responsible for removing the old organ from the balcony and disposing of it, and that was their intention regardless of how it needed to be done. Unbeknownst to me, Walker would not remove the balcony railing because of liability issues, so they intended to gut the console to lighten the load and get it over the railing to remove it. I searched high and low to find organ movers that would be willing to take on the task of moving this rather large behemoth to no avail. Again, it was just too large and nobody was willing to take on the liability. So instead of Walker dismantling this beautiful instrument with a chainsaw, they allowed me to take it apart to "lighten the load" so they could get it over the railing. Their only requirement was that it was as light as the organ that they were putting up there. So I proceeded to dismantle the console with surgical skill, ie. the least amount of butchering possible. I documented the process extensively with pictures and notes, and she will go back together and sing again. Reassembling it and repairing the myriad of original problems will be my winter project, and in the process I will add midi and other goodies that I have in mind and had planned to do anyway.
For a MOS1 organ from 1982, it has quite the spec. If anyone is interested I can post details about what it is, and my progress as it develops.
Joel
Finally, after 8 weeks of an agonizing wait and a week and a half of extraction toil, this Allen organ is at my home, albeit in pieces, but here none the less. (Ref. https://organforum.com/forums/showth...ge-Allen-organ)
The 8 week delay was due to insurance issues between the church and the folks at Walker, and the church's new insurance company who apparently never dealt with something like this. In the contract Walker was responsible for removing the old organ from the balcony and disposing of it, and that was their intention regardless of how it needed to be done. Unbeknownst to me, Walker would not remove the balcony railing because of liability issues, so they intended to gut the console to lighten the load and get it over the railing to remove it. I searched high and low to find organ movers that would be willing to take on the task of moving this rather large behemoth to no avail. Again, it was just too large and nobody was willing to take on the liability. So instead of Walker dismantling this beautiful instrument with a chainsaw, they allowed me to take it apart to "lighten the load" so they could get it over the railing. Their only requirement was that it was as light as the organ that they were putting up there. So I proceeded to dismantle the console with surgical skill, ie. the least amount of butchering possible. I documented the process extensively with pictures and notes, and she will go back together and sing again. Reassembling it and repairing the myriad of original problems will be my winter project, and in the process I will add midi and other goodies that I have in mind and had planned to do anyway.
For a MOS1 organ from 1982, it has quite the spec. If anyone is interested I can post details about what it is, and my progress as it develops.
Joel
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