Roman Turovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >>> At the risk of running off-topic, why is humidity control > >>> important in an organ shop? It seems the wood in an >>organ > >>> would be mostly cabinetry, not subjected to the high >stress > >> and rigorous requirements of a lute soundboard.
all the glue joints in an organ built more than a hundred years ago will be hide glue, and avoidance of extremes will help them from failing. Its hard to keep an organ in good repair, so many moving parts... > >> Because some pipes are made of wood. much more than that, the support for the tracker bars, the wind chest, the bar for each stop that valves several pipes at once, the pallets (several for each key on each manual). I am thinking of a traditinoal tracker organ of course, those electro-pneumatic monsters are less of an issue in this. -- Dana To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
