Thursday, May 16, 2019

Know More On Pipe Organ Repair

By Kevin Scott


After a tiring night trying to find people to have their blood sucked out, Count Dracula finally goes home. He ended early with his work and still has enough time before the sun rises. He has been so lonely sometimes especially when his minions are also still out working. Before he goes inside his coffin to have his sleep, he plays a musical instrument. But when he sat down on its chair, there was a problem. It looked like he needed a pipe organ repair North Carolina.

This kind of instrument is usually found on old churches. They are the old version of pianos and keyboards that we all know. But what makes them different from the two is they are much bigger and have tubes at its back. This instrument is an antique and not much is produced of it anymore.

Since repairs were usually done during the day, he told Igor, his personal assistant, to have the handyman come over to his mansion to check it out. As part of the service of the company that was contacted, a handyman happily shows up to see the instrument. Before assumptions were made, he did a quick check up as part of repair service.

He starts off by cleaning the instrument from bottom to top. He drops to the floor and cleans the pedals, then the keyboard then all of the insides. He had to use a lot of rags to clean because of all the dust that were accumulated for how many years. Not just dust though, cob webs even but he did not kill the spiders, he just transferred them somewhere else.

Aside from the dust, he also mentions that pipes need of replacing. He slowly explains that as the years have gone by, pipes especially those that are made with tin and alloy are very delicate and an oxide layer may have stiffened them up. Being over a hundred years old in the mansion without maintenance could be another problem.

He found some of keyboard pieces also not producing any sound anymore and needs replacing, too. This is probably due to the constant use of playing. The mechanisms must have dislocated itself from being used too much. Just like a regular piano, a key is connected to hammer like device that hits a string to produce the sound except this produces wind.

When cleaning, he went from down to up, but when replacing, he went the opposite direction. This time he was replacing the pedals. The count never knew what those pedals were for and asked the service individual to start a conversation. While replacing, he explains to the count each of the specific functions the pedals have.

Irritated yet feeling guilty again, the monster just crossed his arms and asked what else the problem were. With a smile on the face of that handy individual, he also mentions that relocating them would be best to avoid the same mishaps. Relocation of the instrument may improve its quality.

But after all this and it still is not properly working, maybe it is the time to upgrade, he suggests. When the word upgrade was spoken, it echoed all the way to the lair of Dracula and woke him up. He floated from his coffin, pushed Igor aside and took the handyman out of the mansion for he did not like the idea since he was more of traditional kind of monster.




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