What an amazing project. You must both have a very understanding family/S.O. and a very well-paying job to have gotten this far. :)

👍.... You're accomplishing what I once tried but never could finish. Yes, I'm the one who bought the expertly packed 2 manual ? rank organ (circa 1920's) in storage out of the old Masonic Lodge in Fresno, Ca. (circa 60's). Best wishes to you and much enjoyment.

Wow, what a dream come true!

Great job on your installation. Looking forward to the finished project. Wishing you the best.

I'm personally planning to get my father's old 3 rank direct electric unit instrument back eventually and expanding it to 14 ranks. Most of those are units, but some of them are limited to only one manual unless coupled and even some portions of stops in the swell that aren't duplexed are going to be enclosed. All of this is planned to be in the basement of a new house (7' Ceiling assumed - half of 1,100 to 1,600 sq foot of home basement allocated to the project). At one point I had multiple full length resonator reeds planned, but with limited space and already three 16 ft full length stops to budget space for, it was impractical to expect to add a 16' and 8' unified Posuane, 8' and 4' unified French Trumpet, 8' French Krummhorn and possibly an 8' Oboe. Therefore the Regal length Sordun, Regal and Schalmei together act as one blending chorus reed or can be split up for more flexability. The Schalmei, since it has an oboe like tone at 8' can act as an oboe stop. The Krummhornregal or Apfelregal I've heard on a portative and if built to a similar temperament can be expected to be imitative of a real Krummhorn instrument as opposed to the French Krummhorn which is imitative of a Clarinet. The Mutation Stops in the Swell also allows for the ability to create a Cornet. Stoplist as the organ sits in a storehouse in Colorado (3 Ranks, 231 pipes, 2" Wind Pressure): Metal Unit Gedackt 8', 4', 2' (last 12 notes are tempered as hybrid Flue/Principals) Metal Unit Principal 4', 2' Metal Unit Gemshorn 4', 2' All of these ranks are playable on the swell, great and pedal and have no couplers of any kind. Planned Stoplist (14 Ranks, 1034 Pipes): Pedal (Non-Duplexed): Sordun 16' - 12 Note Extension Sordun 8' - 61 Notes Regal 16' - 12 Note Extension Principal 16' - 12 Note Extension Gedackt 16' - 12 Note Extension Gemshorn 16' - 12 Note Extension Pedal (Duplexed Voices): GT: Principal 8' GT: Principal 4' GT: Gedackt 8' GT: Gedackt 4' GT: Gedackt 2' GT: Regal 8' GT: Regal 4' SW: Gemshorn 8' SW: Gemshorn 4' SW: Gemshorn 2' Great (Non-Duplexed): Regal 8' - 61 Notes Regal 4' - 12 Note Extension Principal 8' - 61 Notes Principal 4' - 12 Note Extension Principal 2' - 12 Note Extension Gedackt 8' - 61 Notes (Last 12 Bass Notes Re-voiced as true Gedackt flutes) Gedackt 4' - 12 Note Extension Gedackt 2' - 12 Note Extension Sharff/Mixture III - 183 Notes Great (Duplexed): PED: Regal 16' SW: Gemshorn 8' SW: Gemshorn 4' SW Gemshorn 2' SW: Schalmei 8' Swell (Not Duplexed): Gemshorn Celeste 8' - 61 Notes Gemshorn 8' - 61 Notes Gemshorn 4' - 12 Note Extension Gemshorn 2' - 12 Note Extension Rohrflote 8' - 61 Notes Rohrflote 4' - 12 Note Extension Rohrflote 2' - 12 Note Extension Schalmei 8' - 61 Notes Schalmei 4' - 12 Note Extension Krummhornregal/Apfelregal 8' - 61 Notes Quint 1 3/5' - 61 Notes Tierce 2 2/3 - 61 Notes Swell (Duplexed) PED: Gemshorn 16' PED: Regal 16' GT: Regal 8' GT: Regal 4' PED: Sordun 16' PED: Sordun 8' Couplers: Swell to Great Swell to Pedal Great to Pedal

I really like that tremolo. I like its speed, and it adds a very nice effect to it. Congratulations on this!

Keep up the great work!

Wow! This is literaly a dream project for me and several other organists I know! It sounds so nice! Do you need to worry about waking up neighbors when you practice I wonder?

Always nice to hear each rank individually as the names on the stops often mean nothing so when you hear them like this you can understand each different voice.

I'd love to see a deeper look at how the control systems for all these pieces work.

Really great progress! Are some of those echo flute stoppers pierced, or is that a mark from the lathe? Also, would love to hear that Morton Vox on trem!

Haha that is hilarious... The magnificent organ you have in your house is several times bigger than the my church organ! I can only imagine what those reed stops sound like let alone full organ. Can people hear the organ outside?

Can you provide its stop list, please?

The 16 foots on the side, are they harmonic bridges attached to the mouth? Noticed some of the Vox Humana has the very long boots but very short resonators and some have longer resonators and shorter boots. Great tremulant by the way and the skinny out of tune vox Celeste stop

What are the dimensions of the pipe room and the footprint of the pipes? How many ranks do you have in there?

Look Mum! No Computer!! You DO talk with Sam... right?