Anatomy of a WurliTzer Theatre Pipe Organ
After releathering the Glockenspiel hammer pneumatics they were layed out in a row prior to being mounted
back on the chest. What appeared to be one upside down, and thus the hole was out of line, was actually
a mistake in the original assembly. Someone assembled that pneumatic with the bottom side of the
pneumatic the wrong way around. The result was that that note would have only had a third of its hole
lined up with the chest so for 70 years people have probably been wondering why one note on the Glock
was always soft.
One way of correcting it would have been to strip the whole pneumatic down again, rotate the base,
reposition the hinge and recover it again. I chose to carve a channel in the base to connect the holes.
This should provide sufficient air flow to make it work the way it should, or at least much better
than it has ever worked before.
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