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Doug Speaking of doing videos on one of the other groups sometime back you talked about making a video of recovering or building up a set of bellows for the
Yes the bottom is covered to be more airtight. If a wooden stopper cracks it can become a leak and then the pipe plays a harmonic instead of the fundamental
That is an interesting roll frame. Johnson organs used some thing like that in the 1970's, not sure if they are still using it. I wonder how they controlled
Are there special techniques for re-leathering pipe-stoppers? Some of mine are very loose. They used .025 leather and after almost 80 years, it's pretty well