How do you tune a pump organ?!


Question: How do you tune a pump organ!?
My family owns a Story and Clark upright pump organ built in the late 18 hundreds!. It's been in my family basically forever!. It's a stunning instrument!. However, it REALLY needs tuned!. Once you get below middle C, the notes are so out of key!.!.!.How do you tune a pump organ!? Do you just call a piano tuner!? I mean I know that organs are different than pianos!.!.!.Someone once told my parents that you have to, like, blow on the reeds or something!?!?Www@Enter-QA@Com


Answers:
A piano tuner probably won't be able to help you!. What you have is a reed organ!. The sounds are made by blowing air across a metal reed!. A person who tunes them would do as you were told!. They would blow air across the reed then file or grind the reed back into tune!. Removing metal from the reed will cause it to vibrate differently therefore tuning it!.

First the bad news - Because reeds vibrate to make sound, they wear out - they become weak with age!. Sometimes they cannot be brought back into tune!. You may need to have the bad reeds replaced!.

Now the good news - Thee are other factors that can make the reed go out of tune!. Some are easy to fix even!. There are people way more knowledgeable than me that are willing to help you figure this out!.

Heres how to get in touch with them -

http://www!.reedsoc!.org/
The Reed Organ Society

http://groups!.yahoo!.com/group/ReedOrganR!.!.!.
Yahoo group

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NOT LIKE A NORMAL PIANO,THATS FOR SURE; I SUSPECT THAT YOU MUST ADJUST THE TUBES UP OR DOWN MAYBE,MAYBE BACK OR FORTH AS WELL!.!.!.
LOOK FOR SPOTS THAT ALLOW ADJUSTMENTS(PLAY)
SPACES AND SUCH, GET RIGHT IN THERE WITH LIGHTS AND LOOK FOR UP AND DOWN, BACK AND FORTH SPACES!.!.!.IT HAS TO ADJUST SOMEHOW!.!.!.
MY GRANDPARENTS HAD ONE TOO; THEY ARE SO COOL!.!.!.CHECK THE DIAPHRAM AS WELL, MAYBE THERE IS A LEAK!.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com



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