Tantantara! Tzing, boom!

Several months ago (April 2009) I posted a photo of the bass drum and cymbal action of the Kilgen theatre organ spread out on the dining room table. Those pieces have slowly found their way back together (ankle bone to shin bone) and now those dry bones live:

Bang the Drum Slowly

Here, like a patient etherized on a table and chopped into tiny bits, lie the disjecta membra of one component of a theatre pipe organ made by the Kilgen Organ Company of St. Louis, MO, for the Alberston Theatre in Kane, PA, in 1928. All wooden pieces have been cleaned and given a new coat of shellac. Worn out leather and rubber cloth has been replaced with new material. Now let's see if I can put it back together. When complete, this mechanism will operate the bass drum and crash cymbal. Check back in a couple of years.