More images of the CPR Christmas Train at Kinnear Yard, just east of our workshop. The performer is Melanie Doane.

Theological College of the Canadian Reformed Churches: the organ of the former Elstone residence is taking shape in its new home.

The CPR Christmas Train came right past our shop.

Church of Our Lady, Guelph: Dave has made a new rack to protect the Great Tromba

Church of Our Lady, Guelph: stained glass by Vermonet of Reims, France, 1907

Mae, the shop dog, has her ears down: something out of tune?

Church of Our Lady, Guelph: Tromba tongues and shallots have been cleaned and polished.

Church of Our Lady, Guelph: Great Tromba pipes cleaned and awaiting reassembly.

Church of Our Lady, Guelph: work is underway to clean the Tromba and improve the racking.

pipework

The view from Woodhill.

Dubay's direct electric construction makes for a heavy chest.

Dubay built a unit organ standing on top of the Casavant console. The horseshoe tab assembly is certainly not Casavant: perhaps it is Woodstock.

Dave surveys the core of the console: 1924 Casavant ex-Ryerson United Church Hamilton.

some visitors as we work.

Removing the organ at Woodhill: an estate on the escarpment at Burlington.

Mixture

Trumpet

First CRC Barrie:

Dave has been devising a new racking system for the Swell Trumpet.

Swell Mixture IV: new rackboard, pipes repaired and sleeved as necessary

The former Swell Cornet IV (8-12-15-17)
has been remodelled into a Mixture IV:
1-29: 15-19-22-26
30-41: 12-15-19-22
42-61: 8-12-15-19

First CRC Barrie: Swell Gamba, bottom C:

'Conservatoire de Toronto

EC' (Elias Chicoyne)

from Wikipedia:

The Conservatory was founded in 1886 as The Toronto Conservatory of Music by a young organist Edward Fisher. It was the first institution of its kind in Canada: a school dedicated to the training of singers and musicians. The Conservatory grew at a rapid pace and in 1897 it purchased a new property at College Street and University Avenue to accommodate its expansion. As the Conservatory's reputation for its professional training, national examination system and faculty of distinguished musicians continued to grow, it became one of the dominant musical institutions in Canada. Some of Canada's most famous musicians studied at the Conservatory. Glenn Gould studied theory, organ and piano, graduating at age 12 in 1946 with an ARCT diploma, with highest honours. Teresa Stratas, Lois Marshall and Jon Vickers were also Conservatory students. In 1947, King George VI awarded the Conservatory its Royal Charter. The Toronto Conservatory of Music became The Royal Conservatory of Music.
In 1962, the University of Toronto sold the Conservatory's College Street property to Ontario Hydro. The Conservatory relocated to 273 Bloor Street West in Toronto, the original site of McMaster University. The concert and recital halls of the College Street site were only partially replaced in the move, while the library, residence and all three pipe organs were lost.

First CRC Barrie: Swell Celeste, tenor C:

'Elias Chicoyne

St Hyacinthe

16 juillet 1908'

First CRC Barrie: new rackboards

First CRC Barrie: reinstalling repaired pipes in their new racks

First CRC Barrie:

Cornopean F sharp 19 after years' accumulation of grime was cleaned off.

First CRC Barrie:

Rackboards cut to size and awaiting the intricate drilling operations.

First CRC Barrie:

Cornopean tongue and shallot after burnishing.

First Christian Reformed Church, Barrie:

Cornopean tongues and shallots being cleaned and burnished.

First Christian Reformed Church, Barrie:

new rackboards for the Swell Prestant 4, Flute 4, and Piccolo

First Reformed Church, Barrie:

transferring the chest tracings to the new rack board.

First Christian Reformed Church, Barrie: looking down on the newly scrubbed chest table in the Swell.

First Reformed Church Barrie: tracing the Swell chest for all new rackboards.

Bourdon 8' pipes needed cleaning, repair, and new leather for the tompions.

Work has begun on the Swell division at First Christian Reformed Church, Barrie.

Work is underway on the Swell division of the organ at First Christian Reformed Church, Barrie, Ontario. Shown here is a hand-wound Casavant magnet ca. 1910