Organ Building for Amateurs: A Practical Guide for Home-Workers, Containing Specifications, Designs, and Full Instructions for Making Every Portion of the Instrument (Classic Reprint)

A really great read for the right audience Neil Maron You can certainly build an organ with the complete details and illustrations provided in this book. It clearly would be a gigantic outlay of time. It was fun seeing the late 1800s prices for things. I won't be commiting myself to such a build but I do highly recommend the book to anyone who enjoys organs or just building things.. "Exactly what it says in the title" according to Richard Hill. I bought this because I wanted to try my hand at building a small organ in the future. I've already read a lot of the book on my computer, since you can get it in PDF format for free, but I wanted a physical copy I can bring into my shop for reference while I'm working.The book looks nice, and the information in it is very clear. It explains how to build. Not well made, but is functional enough. Jack Speller The main problem with this is that they did include all the fold out diagrams that are supposed to be in this book. It is okay though, because I can print out the fold out pages from openlibrary.org and put them in the book. The cover writing also comes really close to the binding, which means if you decide to spiral-bind it, the words on the cover will

I do not think I could adduce better testimony of their efficiency than the fact that a practical organ-builder, who is quite un known to me, has thought it worth his while to take up the manufacture of these pipes, and to enlarge his workshops for the purpose.I would add that the care, patience, and perseverance devoted to building even a small organ at home must necessarily afford most valuable training to young men, and the moral value of the instrument itself in a home where children are growing up cannot, I think, be over-estimated.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. Find more at forgottenbooksThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Excerpt from Organ Building for Amateurs: A Practical Guide for Home-Workers, Containing Specifications, Designs, and Full Instructions for Making Every Portion of the InstrumentThe method of making pipes of paper, which is an invention of my own, will, I trust, prove a boon to amateurs, especially those of limited means, as by making pipes of this material the most expensive item in the cost of the instrument is reduced to a comparatively nominal sum. We d