You may have noticed that it has been a long time since a report of work on the Hegybeli Style 150 has been posted. That does not mean work has stopped! It only means that yours truly got very busy with theatre organ projects and something had to give. The something was maintenance of the IETOS web site. With the completion of some of the competing projects, I have now had time to update the Joomla software that runs the site, which will make it easier to add new articles in the future.

 

You'll also notice a new look for the site. While lacking the theatre organ theme, it does offer the ability to change the size of the text. With the increasing diversity of screen being used to view the web, everything from cell phones to high def screens, it seemed more important to make it easy for our readers to adjust the site for easy reading. Perhaps in the future we will be able to customize the site to give it more of a theatre organ flair.

 

Here's a quick rundown of some of the things that have been going on with the installation of the Style 150.

 

 

 

In April of 2008 the main windline was completed. This 10" metal duct connects the blower, which is in the box at the rear of the chamber seen in the right hand photo above, to the wind trunk at the front of the chamber. As seen in the left hand photo above, the main wind line was hung from the ceiling because that was about the only place where there was room for this big pipe. There is a slight angle in the pipe about midway so that the wind line passes over the middle of the main chest so that it doesn't interfere with the tallest pipes on the two ends of the chest.

 

In the right picture, the electro-pneumatic relay, the "brains" of the organ on the left. The relay is on wheels and is shown rolled out to allow work to be done. It is rolled to the back of the chamber along side the blower when not being serviced. Even though this is a "small" Wurlitzer, it takes up a lot of room and there is no space to spare in the chamber.

 

 

Hugh Poole works on installing the swell motors that will open and close the swell shades that control the volume of the organ heard outside the chamber. Inside the chamber the organ plays at just one volume--loud! The main windline can be seen behind Hugh as it heads down to the floor where it is connected to the wind trunk that distributes the air to the pipes above.

 

 

 

Hugh mounts the action for the chimes on the front wall of the chamber. Originally this hung below the other percussions on a frame but there was neither the height nor the floor space necessary for this frame. Jim Henry has just completed hanging the chime tubes from the action. It will be seen that the chime tubes are not a complete matched set. We are on the lookout for a matched set to replace these.