Hillie2412

What to do? I’ve already told you that I have a new friend, nice Mr Colin who is going to work on my console It might surprise you, dear follower, that anything much needs to be done - and especially if you saw Miss Catherine's or Mr Thomas's nimble fingers whizzing up and down my keys - so let me try and explain. I have 61 keys on three keyboards.   Inevitably after 108 years use, many of these keys have slightly changed colour (interesting that this is most noticeable in the middle octaves of the middle keyboard where I guess most of my organ playing friends tend to play!).   That is all part of my character, so I hope will not change, but one key does need to be patched up.   At the same time all the keys have been disconnected from my lead tubes, and will be re-connected to electric switches; how that is done is beyond my technical knowledge! Then the lovely wood faces of my console, to the sides of the keyboards and in front of the player, all ...

Wind Dear friends, I thought I should give you some thoughts on wind But what sort of "wind" I hear you ask?  No, not the stormy sort of wind that has recently dislodged so many tiles from my lovely home.  Nor the sort of wind that is not talked about in polite circles.  Nor indeed is it the verb that involves turning a key and clock mechanisms Yes, I'm talking about puff!  The sort of "puff" you need to make a recorder sound a note  -  deep breath, puff, music! But on a bigger scale obviously.  The sort of puff that's needed to make all my wonderful pipes make lovely music, and the sort of puff that creates pressurised air to whizz around my tubes and make me work Deep down, near my feet, there are two enormous reservoirs.  Higher up, in my midriff area, there are two more, but smaller reservoirs. Wind (puff!) is created by my blower, then stored until needed in these reservoirs It sounds simple, and it is.  Bu...